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TIL Apple Inc. excused their use of child labor in deadly conditions in Indonesia by claiming the child laborers would be worse off if Apple didn’t hire them, and that not hiring them “would do nothing to improve the situation.”

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XEKx6 TIL: The ideomotor effect, that is our body moves when we are not trying to move. It's a powerful subconscious tool and is the mechanism behind how ouija boards work.
oB1no TIL that in In 1683 a group of people in Holland (The Netherlands) were ice skating when the ice broke off and they floated to Essex, England.
rRdLw TIL that former major league pitcher Randy Johnson is now a professional photographer. The logo of his company is a tribute to the bird he hit while pitching in 2001.
4XGBN TIL What the sheet music painted on the butt of one of the subjects in the Hieronymus Bosch painting 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' sounds like, and it's kind of incredible
j6x1n TIL about parfilage, a fashionable pastime among upper class ladies in 18th century France in which they would painstakingly destroy textile goods, thread by thread in a deliberate reversal of normal "women's work", sometimes even having things made specifically for that purpose