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TIL: In January 2012, 150 employees of Foxconn, Taiwanese technology company and contract manufacturer for products including the iPhone, iPad and Playstation 4, threatened to commit mass suicide in protest of their working conditions

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BrVed TIL: A couple hundred metalheads with kazoos showed up at Virginia's State Capital to counter protest the a Kansas-based hate group (Westboro Baptist Church. )
wom1E TIL of "shifting baseline syndrome" which is ‘a gradual change in the accepted norms for the condition of the natural environment due to a lack of experience, memory, and/or knowledge of its past condition'.
oRwDr TIL that Albert Batyrgaziev is the first professional boxer in Olympic history to win a gold medal.
7gXO TIL during World War II, prisoners of war in Canada were treated so nicely that they didn’t want to leave Canada when released.
ANZNa TIL that while making 'Léon: The Professional', director Luc Besson married and impregnated 15-year-old Maïwenn Le Besco, whom he had met 3 years earlier. Maïwenn would later say in an interview that the relationship between Mathilda and Léon in the film was inspired by her relationship with Besson.