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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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oRvGY TIL - in 1995, Renault installed their 800+HP, V-10 Formula 1 engine into their Espace minivan, sold in Europe. They had F1 champ Alain Prost test drive it around a race track.
gMDAW TIL Commercial bread contains an ingredient derived from human hair: l-cysteine
JY6r8 TIL there is a guy who made an entire electric toaster from raw materials - mining and refining steel, nickel, copper, mica, and making plastic - after being inspired by a Hitchhiker’s Guide quotation.
78MyP TIL: Apple seeds DO NOT yield the same apple it came from... every apple seed yields a completely unique apple. If you want the exact same apple, you have to cut a branch off the existing apple tree and graft in onto another tree.
Xr6R TIL a man was sentenced to 12 years in prison for killing and eating the last Indochinese tiger in China.