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TIL people from St. Louis like to cut their bagels super weird

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JYnd4 TIL A study found that companies with leaders who show "psychopathic characteristics" destroy shareholder value, tending to have poor future returns on equity. Workplace psychopaths maintain multiple personas throughout the office, presenting each colleague with a different version of themselves.
GYKA1 TIL that in 1996, as a loss-leading tactic, British supermarkets competed so heavily on the price of baked beans that one store decided to sell them for MINUS 2p. This period is referred to by economists as The Bean Wars.
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