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TIL Walmart paid employees of “Walmart de Mexico” in company scrip vouchers usable only at Walmart stores until a court ruling in 2008.

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loDYr TIL A year after Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Wat Misaka broke basketball's with the New York Knicks, Larry Kwong broke hockey's with the New York Rangers. Becoming the first man of Asian descent to appear professionally.
jAdv TIL that companies in America will outsource call center duties to prisons. The prisoners make $0.92 per hour to handle calls.
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yGGp TIL the explosion from the first nuclear weapon test at Trinity was so bright that Georgia Green, a blind woman almost 50 miles away, asked her brother “What’s that light?”