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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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e0B1L TIL oxygen masks in airplanes aren't connected to an oxygen tank. Instead, they use a chemical reaction to generate it on the spot
0Gn5 TIL that Jet Li was presumed dead during the Indian Ocean Tsunami disaster.
klDW TIL of a British marine who threw himself on an enemy grenade in Afghanistan, walked away with a nosebleed and got himself the George Cross
Br1Pd TIL of Derinkuyu, the world’s deepest underground city, capable of holding 20,000 inhabitants.
OGENa Today I learned Mozart composed a song called “Kiss My Ass”