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TIL Nestlé has a sordid history including price fixing, deliberately misleading advertisements, melamine and e coli poisoning, child slave labor use, and causing the death of countless third world children.

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AmEx TIL there are only 12 people in the world who have ever dived past 790 ft recreationally. That is the same number as the number of people who walked on the moon.
4XZgo TIL that there is a Darth Vader 'Gargoyle' on the exterior of the Washington National Cathedral in Washington DC
X0onk TIL that Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda hosted a wrap-party for their 1969 film “Easy Rider”, before realizing that they forgot to shoot the final campfire scene. The motorcycles used in the film were previously stolen from set, which is why they’re not visible in the final campfire scene.
4kV9o TIL about Ragamuffin Day, a celebration in the New York metro area in the late-1800s and early-1900s in which children wore costumes and went door-to-door asking for candy or money on Thanksgiving. It fell out of favor as trick-or-treating on Halloween gained acceptance in the 1940s and '50s.
KlL6 TIL the man who invented Life Savers (candy) had a son who committed suicide by jumping off a ship.