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TIL that in 2004 Walmart transferred six new employees to one of their stores prior to a union vote, to help sway the voting in their favor.

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enwg TIL Wedding rings weren’t worn by men until the late 19th century.
PBRe TIL The asteroid that killed the dinosaurs created a hole 18 MILES deep and peaks taller then Everest, before collapsing less than 10 minutes later
M5jA TIL White People in the US purchase more than twice the cheese per capita than Black or Asian people.
Y9DZ TIL NASA astronaut Anna Lee Fisher made news in 2012, when, during the landing of the Space Shuttle Discovery at Washington’s Dulles Airport, she was asked by an aspiring young astronaut how they could get into the space program, Fisher quipped “study Russian.”
R70a6 TIL that on 21 October 1966, a coal mining spoil heap liquefied due to having been placed on top of a mountain spring, and collapsed onto the town of Aberfan, Wales, burying houses and the Pantglas primary school, resulting in the deaths of 116 children, 5 teachers, and 23 residents of the town