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TIL : A Few Years Back, Wisconsin’s largest painting, The Flagellants, returned from its trip to Munich!

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9dLG TIL that in 2011, after being nominated for worst company in America again, Comcast tried to get their employees to vote multiple times in an effort to not be the worst company. Before they issued the memo, they had 65% of the vote. After news got out, they had over 83%.
mr0x TIL that in 2009, a Polish woman filed a lawsuit against a hotel in Egypt after claiming that sperm in the swimming pool got her 13 year old daughter pregnant.
nnEr TIL until he turned 12, Robert Pattinson’s elder sisters dressed him up as a girl and introduced him as “Claudia” to strangers
W809 TIL an Italian schoolboy who was selling snacks on campus at a lower price than the cafeteria was suspended for 10 days. He also received a prestigious scholarship from an institute that said the boy’s initiative should be “encouraged, not persecuted”.
xjD7 TIL : In 2012, Israel ranked as the 2nd most educated country in the world (Canada was 1st).