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TIL The Vietnam government executes corporate executives convicted of financial crimes or corporate malfeasance.

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VMvYG TIL the land of Sheba (as in the place whose Queen was in both the Bible and the Quran) is now modern day Ethiopia.
Y10d TIL that there has never been a fatal attack on a human by killer whales in the wild. However there have been multiple deaths caused by the animals in captivity.
O1QR TIL Rowan Atkinson suffers from a stammer, so he uses over-articulation as a technique to overcome problematic consonants (like ‘B’).
W7w6L TIL: Researchers found in 2021 after an experiment with red haired mice given the MC1R gene that redheads experience pain differently having higher pain tolerances. The MC1R gene produces more pheomelanin which causes freckles, heat sensitivity, red hair, and suppresses pain receptors.
EgG4d TIL that McDonald’s is the largest toy distributor in the world. with roughly 5000 happy meal sold every minute which translates to 1.5 billion toys a year