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TIL that in fall of 2018, Starbucks’ coffee was found to have connections to forced labor plantations where workers were subject to debt bondage and unsafe working conditions. This was 8 months after they were named one of the World’s Most Ethical companies for the 12th year in a row.

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8lgL TIL that Canada didn’t gain FULL sovereignty from the UK until 1982.
ox9W TIL there are 10 quintillion (10,000,000,000,000,000,000) individual insects alive on Earth at any given time. That is nearly 1.5 Billion insects for every human being.
LLYV TIL that a robot with pool noodle limbs and a computerized brain hitchhiked across Canada last summer.
9Vmr TIL that birth certificates produced for children born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan Project read “P.O. Box 1663” as the place of birth.
E1NKX TIL there was an experiment where three people, who each believed they were Jesus Christ, were made roommates at a psychiatric ward. At first, they argued over who was holiest and even fistfought. Eventually, each patient wrote the other two off as being crazy.