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TIL in 2010, Nestlé refused to watch a documentary about child slave labor in the cocoa industry and their involvement in it. In response, the film's director set up a large screen next to Nestle’s headquarters in Switzerland playing the film.

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neDVb TIL that most Confederate statues were raised long after the Civil War by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in an effort to further the Lost Cause alternate version of history.
Rx64 TIL that in 1972 a scientist created a ‘Rat Utopia’ as a social experiment to study population density, and within two years the population dived Into a irreversible decline unto extinction.
xV7yD TIL that John Wilkes Booth attended Lincoln's second inauguration and was close enough to shoot him
a87y0 TIL that the Hope Diamond, was mailed to the Smithsonian in a $2.33 envelope, in normal first class US Mail without delivery confirmation.
X0Oy8 TIL about Pablo Escobar's four pet (cocaine) hippos that were left to fend for themselves after Escobar's death in 1993. Well over 40 hippos now exist wild in the region (Colombia) with the population expected to double in the next decade