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TIL that WalMart and McDonalds are the 3rd and 4th largest employers in the world; only the armies of the United States and China employ more people.

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nMGb TIL In France, each train station has a piano in a prominent place for anyone to play. In 4 years, not a single one has been vandalized.
vPa7j TIL of Benjamin Lay who lived in Philadelphia in the 18th century. He was four feet tall, a hunchback, and lived in a cave. He created his own clothes to boycott the slave-labor industry and would not wear or eat anything made from the loss of animal life or by slave labor.
p5ep TIL that months after Genghis Khan sacked Zhongdu (Beijing) in 1215, the bones of the vanquished were thought to be white-capped mountains from a distance, and the approaching roads were nearly impassable from the grease of decomposing victims.
0wxjL TIL that one of the strongest men in the world, who holds multiple weight lifting records, is a vegan.
6DkX TIL in 2014, US law enforcement took $4.5 billion from citizens who were never charged with a crime; more than US burglars stole in the same year