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TIL: “The Indian government requires retailers to source 30 percent from small suppliers”; this is one of the reasons Walmart is having difficulty expanding in India.

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N7bKQ TIL that the space shuttle flew 135 missions with a flight computer that had less than 1% of the computing power as an XBox 360.
rVx TIL James Franco, Emma Watson, Jason Segel, Seth Rogen, Rihanna, Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Aziz Ansari etc. are going to play themselves in an upcoming movie called “End of the World”
W7wvY TIL that Packers Legend Tony Canadeo, who only played for the Green Bay Packers, is in the Chicagoland Sports Hall of Fame.
gMnMy TIL that red is not the only color of blood in the animal kingdom. Several species of octopus have blue blood, ocellated icefish have clear blood, and the green-blooded skink has, well, green blood.
Lkaed TIL Martin Luther King Jr., in his last speech "I've Been to the Mountaintop," anticipated his early demise but was contented to be in the same position as the Biblical Moses, who could look on the promised land but would die before ever reaching it. King was assassinated the next day.