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TIL Walmart has a strict no-touching policy and an employee was once fired for being pushed and grabbing for help

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ax9L TIL During WWII, Major Hajime Fuji, a training instructor, presented his petition to serve as a kamikaze pilot written in blood; his wife drowned herself and their children so that he should have no conflicting ties.
7VAp TIL the 80’s had awesome realistic water guns
grQwW TIL Several months before Ed Sullivan, George Harrison performed with a local band in Eldorado, Illinois, a small town in the southern part of the state. This was the first public performance by a Beatle in the US
kOdOd TIL in 1957 Northeast Airlines Flight 823 crashed onto Rikers Island, New York’s 400 acre prison complex. Around 50 inmates rushed to help pull passengers from the wreckage. Later the governor set those prisoners free or reduced their sentences.
mvry TIL Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste (they are able to extract pollutants, including radioactive metal contaminants, through their roots and store them in the stems and leaves. Making them the international symbol of nuclear disarmament).