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TIL Qatar is the only country that begins with a Q and Iraq is the only country that ends with one

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X0G9j TIL Bob Moore, founder of Bob’s Red Mill, refused to sell to corporations, citing the Bible: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." Instead, he gave his $100M company to his 700 employees via an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The company now sells in over 70 countries.
5a1p TIL in 1851, a runaway slave named Jerry was arrested in Syracuse NY during the anti-slavery Liberty Party’s convention. A crowd of hundreds of abolitionists broke into the city jail and freed Jerry, eventually smuggling him to Canada. Nine participants in the rescue also fled to avoid prosecution.
P17jw TIL that a US Vice-President wrote a pop song
Zeap TIL that pickpockets in Paris successfully take advantage of Americans’ eagerness to sign petitions by using young girls to distract them with environmental petitions
logBK TIL what a gag order is