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TIL the full original name of 3M is Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company

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YeJA TIL nearly 70% of the 99,000 weapons seized in Mexico in connection with criminal activity from 2007 to 2011 came from the United States.
b600Z TIL that a careful examination of Nestlé’s marketing behaviour shows that Nestlé’s entry into low- and middle-income formula markets caused about 212,000 infant deaths per year among mothers without clean water access at the peak of the Nestlé controversy in 1981
8evVa TIL that it is illegal to have a conversation across the Norwegian-Russian border
nWag9 TIL that actress Bette Davis became the first female lifeguard for Ogunquit Beach, Maine in 1926.
Oo8d7 TIL - Cast Away screenwriter Bill Broyles Jr. spent 10 days on an isolated Mexican island for research purposes. He learned how to spear fish and ate them raw, licked water off of leaves and most significantly he befriended a Wilson branded volleyball that washed up on the beach.