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TIL that SOS messages have been found stitched in Primark clothing, allegedly from employees complaining of "sweatshop conditions" and being "worked like oxen" over 15 hour shifts.

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dD7Oj TIL about Operation Cottage intended to seize the last enemy stronghold on North American soil from Japanese occupiers in 1943. By the time the island was declared secure, over 300 Allied soldiers lay dead or wounded. There were none Japanese casualties, they abandoned the island 3 weeks prior.
9wLbp TIL: Grimace has an Irish uncle named Uncle O’Grimacey.
KExR TIL ten French villages were destroyed during The Great War and deemed uninhabitable afterwards. Today, these ten villages are known as a “village that died for France.”
QMRL TIL that Juneau, the capital of Alaska, is only accessible by air and sea.
y6ne TIL the average age of a person who plays video games is 30