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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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YpEYx TIL Nike's Jumpman Logo was created from a studio set picture where Michael Jordan did "ballet moves" in order to try to recreate a Life Magazine photo shoot of him taken during the Olympics.
g1JD TIL Great Britain’s population doubled during the Victorian Era
jNdJn TIL of a supposed sunken city off the coast of Cuba that was found in 2001: it's over 2000 feet below the surface of the ocean, and has what some surmise from sonar images and footage to be pyramids and roads
neJGb TIL Martin Luther was virulently antisemitic and his writings were used by the Nazis to justify their hatred of Jews
l7vPK TIL Brazil found incarcerated populations read 9x as much as the general population. They made a new program for prisoners so each written book review took 4 days off a prison sentence.