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TIL that Nestle actively supports child trafficking and child slavery in Africa to obtain cocoa and forces 12-14 yr olds to work at gunpoint

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oB79L TIL that during a game of backgammon in the year 480, the Byzantine Emperor Zeno had a dice roll that was so unlucky that he had it recorded and we still know of it to this day.
5YXXn TIL in Finland, you pay speeding tickets proportional to your income meaning some people can pay over $100,000
Ypdvr TIL That Cannabis and Frankincense were discovered at the "holy of holies" of a shrine at Tel Arad in the Beer-sheba Valley, Israel.
69l68 TIL about semantic and episodic memory. Semantic memory refers to general knowledge while episodic memory refers to past events and experiences. That is why you can remember what keys are and how they operate (semantic), but not where you put them (episodic).
V6ZB TIL of a Jewish man who escaped Germany in 1938 at age 13 and returned in 1945 as a U.S. Military Intelligence officer charged with hunting escaped Nazis and proving that Hitler was dead. In the process he tracked down a dozen SS officers and discovered Hitler’s Last Will and Testament.