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TIL about "Staff D" at the CIA

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kOwwm TIL when Apple finds underage workers in its suppliers’ factories they make the suppliers return the children to their homes, pay for their education and continue to provide income for basic needs until they reach the legal working age. After this, suppliers must offer them reemployment.
9YoEG TIL that in 1997 a person consumed 2-4 L of soda for a month leading to too much bromine (from brominated vegetable oil) which required dialysis to remove.
KYXNw TIL The 2002 Longshoremen Strike that delayed Christmas products that year is the reason why Christmas decorations started to appear in stores earlier each year.
Wk4No TIL About The Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a black neighborhood with thriving businesses, great housing, and education system which was home to the wealthiest black people in the 1910's, before it was burned down.
woVj7 TIL that the female G-spot is named after Ernst Gräfenberg, a progressive Jewish medical doctor who studied female sexual physiology (including female ejaculation) well ahead of his time.