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TIL - McDonald’s, Starbucks, Victoria’s Secret and Boeing use prison labor for some of their products.

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N7rE6 TIL that 90% of "dead" cell phone batteries returned to the manufacturer are repaired and resold.
9wp9G TIL of the Sama-Bajau, an ethnic group of Maritime Southeast Asia, that live a seaborne lifestyle, many of whom still live in houseboats that roam the Coral Triangle (the waters around the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea)
788ap TIL Pinecones are a type of fruit
R7A18 TIL an abstract from a paper about butt reflexology (pressure points on the butt that can be used for therapeutic effects) that was written to show the dangers of having low standards in science, was accepted by the Jerusalem International Conference on Integrative Medicine.
86ML TIL John Cazale (Fredo Corleone from “The Godfather”) appeared in only five films during his lifetime. All five were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Three of them won.