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TIL Walmart costs taxpayers 6.2 billion per year.

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XA1X TIL that Pythagoras believed that ‘So long as men slaughter animals they won’t stop killing each other.’
R70rw TIL in 2005, a guy named Doug Heckman read the EULA before he installed some PC software. The agreement included a clause offering 'financial compensation' to licensees who actually read the license agreement. He emailed the company, referred to the clause and the company sent him a check for $1,000
67BJ TIL that a year after its initial publication in 1908, Theodore Roosevelt (then-president of the U.S.), loved the children’s book “The Wind in the Willows” so much that he wrote the author saying that he had “read it, reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends”.
jNd9p TIL Mexico’s presidential palace is 14 times larger than the White House and opened its doors to visitors for the first time in 2018
jNYJj TIL that Lawrence Moore Cosgrave, a Canadian Colonel and diplomat, signed on behalf of Canada on the Japanese Instrument of Surrender. However, Cosgrave signed the document in the wrong place (on the line for France) forcing all subsequent signatories to sign in the wrong place as well.