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TIL: The workers at Costco stores that hand out free samples are considered outside vendors, not actual Costco employees, and work under a subcontractor called CDS that only offers services to Costco. CDS employees are paid less than Costco employees and get no benefits.

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E11w TIL that when Mr Potato Head first appeared in 1952, only the parts were supplied and parents had to provide the potato to stick the bits into.
7rmGO TIL that Cornell University's home economics programs provided students in the program with "practice babies" from orphanages. The babies were all given the last name "Domecon," shortened from the "Domestic Economy" program.
KVBG TIL of a WWII war crime committed by a US bomber against a German U-boat rescuing allied civilians. It has been suppressed by the US and Germany alike, in Germany because it paints Nazis in a positive light.
pYBY4 TIL The second Prime Minister of India, Lal Bahadur Shastri, died in mysterious circumstances in 1966. No autopsy was ever performed, the Indian Government released no information about his death, and the media was kept silent. His death is considered to be one India's biggest unsolved mysteries.
pbx4 TIL of a Herculaneum, a neighboring city to Pompeii that suffered the same fate but is better preserved.