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TIL that Lumber Liquidators, the USA’s largest hardwood flooring company, gets most of their wood from illegal sources in Russia that support organized crime and destroy the habitat of the Siberian Tiger

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Y7pjA TIL you don’t need a law degree to be a Supreme Court justice.
wGa7 TIL that the pledge of allegiance in schools was conceived by a businessman who wanted to sell flags.
XB4j TIL that Prince wrote The Bangles’ 1986 hit “Manic Monday”. It was rumored by various writers that Prince gave the song to The Bangles rhythm guitarist Susanna Hoffs so that she would sleep with him.
4J8X TIL after WW2 was over, everyone got freed from the concentration camps at the end of the war…except the gay people, many of which were forced to remain in imprisonment for their “crimes” and were not acknowledged as victims of Nazi persecution.
xV1Ob TIL of a woman who crashed her own funeral after her husband hired hitmen to kill her. They let her go, telling her they didn’t believe in killing women. Five days later she appeared at her own funeral, with her husband pleading for forgiveness.