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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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jW7E TIL of John ‘Mad Jack’ Churchill, a British Army officer who fought throughout the Second World War armed with a longbow, bagpipes, and a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword. He holds the last recorded kill with a bow and arrow in action.
4kM6w TIL An aboriginal man with a tomahawk was the first Australian to capture a Japanese POW during WWII. He snuck up to a downed pilot and took him to the military base on a neighboring island.
1R1r TIL That an UK double agent knew about the attack on Pearl Harbor months before the attack. And that FBI was told about this but ignored the facts.
8e7OP TIL that sperm whales have the longest intestinal tract of any known animal, reaching over 300 meters long in some cases.
dwW8 TIL After being diagnosed with terminal cancer, Sam Simon, co-creator & executive producer of The Simpsons, has arranged to leave his entire fortune to various charities.