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[TIL] Nestle agreed in 2001 to ensure its products were not made with slave labor by 2005. In 2005, the international organization it made the agreement with found it had not done so.

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GA9rE TIL NASA’s internet speed is 91 GB per second
EALw TIL After being beaten and arrested by police for being gay, Stonewall rioter Raymond Castro was placed in the back of a paddy wagon. The wagon was already filled with three members of the Mafia, who reassured him “don’t worry kid, you’re ok in our book.”
m0rO TIL that Richard Nixon is the only former U.S. president to refuse protection from the Secret Service after leaving office. He called the program, which provides lifetime protection to all former presidents, a waste of money.
oBPXW TIL: Tom Hanks originally wanted Dave Chappelle for the role of Bubba in the 1994 film Forrest Gump.
ANGpo TIL tourists often get lost on their way to visit Auschwitz in Poland, because the name is absent from both the nearby bus stop and train station.