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TIL Amway, the infamously successful MLM company, its Chinese ‘sale reps’ were so toxic that its name in Chinese, AN LI, has entered the vernacular to mean to “promote heavily” or to “be brainwashed.”

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b9x8Z TIL The cornea is the only part of the body with no blood supply and it gets its oxygen directly from the air
pXGG TIL inside NASA’s Juno probe, it has a plaque dedicated to Galileo with writing in his own hand, and 3 Lego mini figures (Galileo, the Roman god Jupiter, and his sister and wife, the goddess Juno) specially made by the Lego Company using aluminum.
Bgpre TIL: The IRS (USA) has specific tax codes requiring you to report money earned from selling illegal drugs, taking illegal bribes, and the fair market value of anything you stole as taxable income.
WOB8 TIL There is a government website that lets you calculate if solar energy makes sense for your home.
v1LN4 TIL that a single billionaire family, the Irvings, has control over basically the entire Canadian province of New Brunswick, including all its newspapers, as well as the oil, shipping, forestry, construction, and real estate industries