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TIL the "Necco" of Necco Wafers stands for "New England Confectionery Company"

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VBGj4 Today I learned that companies like Starbucks and Verizon use US prison labor to increase profit margins.
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oRNg7 TIL that the famous author Thomas Pynchon has avoided publicity during his fifty-year career to the point that almost all known photos of him are from the 1950s. However, he voiced himself in two episodes of The Simpsons, where his dialogue consisted entirely of puns on the titles of his books.