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TIL In 2012, investigators discovered Wal-Mart de Mexico had bribed various government officials in order to increase growth in the country. They found a paper trail of hundreds of suspect payments totaling more than $24 million. Wal-Mart executives in the US tried to bury the matter.

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K5D4 TIL James Cameron got the go-ahead to make ‘Aliens’ by writing the word 'Alien’ on a board, then adding an ’s’ and turning it into a dollar sign.
LdNZ TIL that on 18 May 1990, Jim Swire, who’s daughter died in the Lockerbie bombing, took a fake bomb on board a British Airways from London Heathrow to New York JFK and then on a flight from New York JFK to Boston to show that airline security had not improved.
VlBZ TIL Queen became the first rock act to receive an official seal of approval in Iran partly due to the appeal to “Bismillah” in Bohemian Rhapsody, which is the name of God in Arabic.
kJABm TIL: Local Indonesian mythology says that Orangutans actually have the ability to speak human languages, but choose not to, fearing they would be forced to get jobs and work if were they ever caught.
GYd4g TIL that 1816 was a year without summer. Average global temperatures fell by around 1°C after Mount Tambora erupted in 1815, covering the skies around the world in volcanic ash.