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TIL Walmart used to take out life insurance policies on their employees and keep the payouts when they died, a practice colloquially known as “Dead Peasant Insurance”

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78exb TIL Jim Thorpe competed at the highest level for 17 different sports. The sports were the Decathalon, Pentathalon, Football and Baseball.
RXr8 TIL despite milk being a valuable source of calcium, the countries with the rates of highest milk consumption are also those with the highest rates of Osteoporosis.
X8Dr TIL Eric Carle, the American-born illustrator and writer of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, moved to Germany as a kid in the 1930s, and was conscripted to dig trenches for the German army when he was 15 years old. Now 87 years old, he is one of the youngest surviving WWII veterans.
OG0G1 TIL there are cells in the pancreas called the "Islets of Langerhans"
9wrYQ TIL that Ryan Gosling was raised Mormon