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TIL that in 2012, KFC were ordered to pay 8.3 million dollars in damages to the family of an Australian girl left severely brain damaged after contracting salmonella poisoning by eating a Twister chicken wrap.

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RB91 TIL Dwight Burch, a black waiter working at Apple-bee’s, sued the restaurant after repeated harassment by a black manager and won a $40,000 settlement. The black manager repeatedly referred to him as a ‘tar baby’ and ‘Black monkey’ during his three months at the restaurant.
R5gxl TIL: That Ikea is a Nonprofit Organization
OAxY TIL: There is a company that gives employees $7,500 extra every year to take a paid vacation, during which they are not allowed to log in, check email, or do anything else “work-related” during that vacation.
Xnyj TIL Victor Mature, after being denied membership of the Los Angeles Country Club because he was an actor, replied “I am not an actor - and I’ve got 64 films to prove it”
NXvyM TIL that the tea company Twinings was founded in 1706 as a coffee shop that sold tea to stand out from the competition, and its flagship location still occupies the same premises today