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TIL Walmart lobbies congress to raise the minimum wage in order to impose higher costs on smaller competitors.

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MLAB TIL the US State Department charges a fee of $2,350 to any individual who wishes to renounce his or her American citizenship.
mxrvY TIL Dick Seaman became a Nazi sporting legend after he was hand picked by Adolf Hitler to become a racing driver for Mercedes-Benz in 1937
p895Q TIL that the Pink Triangle, a symbol for gay pride, was originally used to denote homosexuals in concentration camps. Because the symbol also identified other “sexual undesirables,” gay men were often left imprisoned when Allied troops liberated others from the camps.
4X7no TIL fried brain sandwiches used to be a popular dish in the St. Louis area. They are still a local delicacy in Evansville, Indiana despite stigma associated with mad cow disease (many restaurants replaced cow with pig brains)
XEgn6 TIL a South African policeman and criminal, robbed banks on his lunch break and often returned as the investigating officer.