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TIL Fortune 500 companies with strong growth profiles are more likely to engage in financial fraud than smaller, struggling companies

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QJGEM TIL despite being a massive success in Japan, Dragon Quest I sold so poorly in America, it was given away free with subscriptions of Nintendo Power. The promotion was so successful, Nintendo employees who sent out the game received a shirt saying, "I survived the 1990 Dragon Warrior mailing."
6ab8 TIL the longest record for a human without food is 382 days. The man went from 456 pounds to 180 pounds.
W7DpX TIL so confident were the Los Alamos scientists about the design of Little Boy (later dropped on Hiroshima) that a full-scale nuclear explosive test was not conducted
rNpjy TIL that Southern Africans, including groups like the Zulu and others, participated in taking and trading other African people as slaves, both before and during European colonization
NOPE TIL that German law prohibits the killing of animals without reasonable cause therefore kill shelters are outlawed.