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TIL in 2016, it was discovered that Beyonce’s “Empower Women” clothing line was made by women sweat shop labourers working on less than £5 a day.

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wLB78 TIL when your immune system fights an infection, it cranks up the mutation rate during antibody production by a factor of 1,000,000, and then has them compete with each other. This natural selection process creates highly specific antibodies for the virus.
awRW0 TIL there are 14 sailors stuck on an oil tanker off the coast of the UAE for nearly 4 years due to their company abandoning them and the ship.
e0Lrn TIL the plans for Winston Churchill's state funeral had to be revised several times because Churchill outlived several intended pallbearers.
0wVwp TIL Inuit and Yupik people of Alaska and Northern Canada carved narrow slits into ivory, antler and wood creating snow goggles to prevent snow blindness.
R7D4w TIL that when Billie Holiday would perform “Strange Fruit” at gigs, the club owner would order the waiters to stop serving, and the room would be in complete darkness except for a single spotlight on her face. It would close her act and there would be no encore.