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TIL Nike factory workers in Vietnam earn $0.61 to $0.89 Per Hour with women making up 80% of the workforce there

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dDrdj TIL that Hitler was still alive when the first McDonald's opened up in 1940.
kOJ64 TIL the use of triple parentheses, or triple brackets, also known as an (((echo))), is an antisemitic symbol that has been used to highlight the names of individuals of a Jewish background.
Yp4GA TIL many medieval manuscript illustrations show armored knights fighting snails, and we don't know the meaning behind that.
JY4Nv TIL In '72 Billy Joel got into a legal battle with his label and was forbidden from recording. He moved to LA and played at a bar under an assumed name to earn money. This was the inspiration for the song "Piano Man". All the characters in the song were based on real people Joel had met at the bar.
rN1Be TIL in 1985, David Lewis Rice tortured Charles Goldmark to get a list of "Communist operatives" and then murdered the entire Goldmark family, acting on rumors he heard accusing Goldmark's father John to have been a Jewish Communist agent