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TIL Beyonce's clothing line made to "support & inspire women" was made by women in sweat shops earning $6.10 per day

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j6Q8E TIL over 20 years ago, geneticists found a way to decaffeinate coffee plants
nWmJB TIL that there is a species of frog called the "purple frog" that spends most of its life underground and only emerges for a few days each year to breed during the monsoon season.
WWro TIL that a woman created a fake facebook profile of a teenage girl and sent a friend request to her husband, then used transcripts of their conversations to get him arrested. He was freed and all charges were dropped when he produced a notarized affidavit, proving he knew it was her all along.
aaZb TIL the Nissan Z series was originally named the Fairlady by the president of Nissan in Japan. The U.S. head knew this wouldn’t appeal to the American male market, so he removed the Fairlady labels from the cars that arrive in the U.S. and replaced them with the internal code for the project, 240-Z
WkjLY TIL Georgia Governor Talmadge may have been integral in promoting infamous 1946 lynchings and was investigated by the FBI