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TIL Amazon warehouse workers walk between 7 and 15 miles each day as part of their daily shift

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ALvd TIL in 2010 a homeless man saved a woman from a knife attack in New York. He was stabbed trying to help, yet still chased the assailant before collapsing from his wounds. CCTV cameras captured over 20 people walk past him. Some stared, none helped. He later died on the sidewalk where he fell.
VMv08 TIL that many nations and countries such as the United States of America, Matla and Europe have a "National Personification" which is a mythical-like being created as a physical representation of the nation itself.
PY7BZ TIL that the sampled moaning heard on the background of Prince's "Peach" track was recorded by Kim Basinger.
KwLJ TIL: The first gun control laws were aimed at black people to keep them from owning weapons to protect themselves.
nW7vr TIL that Xerox built the first personal computer with a mouse-based graphical user interface (GUI) in 1973, 10 years before anyone else. But they couldn't see any reason why anyone would want a PC so they didn't market it