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TIL Hershey’s gets their cocoa beans from farms that use child labor and slavery, something that they know and are doing little to change.

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Z8kjD TIL the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft in Berlin was a pioneering facility for sexuality and gender studies which was set back incalculably after the Nazis burned all of their records in 1933.
Ooy86 TIL about Karen Silkwood, a chemical technician who died in a car crash after attempting to expose unethical things done at the nuclear power plant she worked in.
gVZ4 TIL Isaac Asimov died from HIV contracted from a blood transfusion
DAXp TIL that every year Finland gets about 7km^2 bigger because it’s rebounding from the weight of ice age glaciers and rising out of the sea.
7LPL TIL: A personal trainer wanted to prove to the doubters that it’s possible to get back in shape even if you become really overweight, so he gained 70 lbs (32 kg) of fat over a 6 month period. In 29 weeks he was back in shape.