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TIL Walmart costs taxpayers 6.2 billion per year.

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l7p8K TIL the famous study about heartless husbands, which found men were highly likely to divorce their sick wives after serious diagnoses, was subsequently responsibly retracted by authors because of a statistical error. In the corrected model, the difference between divorce rates was minimal.
nW9wr TIL Isaac Newton invested in the “South Sea Company” which profited from the sale of some British goods and, more significantly and more grimly, enslaved Africans
yajX TIL Balisongs (butterfly knives) are not illegal because of more use in violent crime, but because they can cause prolific amounts of Emergency Room visits from user-based accidents.
Y7Byv TIL Whale milk has the consistency of toothpaste.
aXdJ TIL that Christina Aguilera was criticised heavily for singing the wrong lyric when performing the national anthem at the World Series by the singer of Staind. 3 years later, he made the same mistake when he performed the anthem at the World Series.