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TIL Israel made chinese workers sign a "no sex" contract

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rNN60 TIL it only takes 1-1.5ml of raw ethanol per kg of mass to kill a person
NXxbP TIL about Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño, inventor of the Happy Meal. She was the daughter of the Chilean embassador to Guatemala. Her husband owned the first McDonalds in Guatemala, and she went to study in the Hamburger University.
0dXpM TIL that in 2002, Chumbawamba accepted $100k from General Motors for the rights to use one of their songs in a Pontiac commercial. The band then donated it to a corporate watchdog group that used the money to launch an information campaign against GM.
78ZZZ TIL in South Vietnam during the Buddhist crisis, a hugely oversized carp was found in a small pond. It was believed to be a reincarnation of one of Buddha's disciples, and the Catholic government ordered it mined and machine gunned, which it survived. This catapulted the fish's fame to new heights
Oo6X7 TIL Pakistani government telecom engineers trying to block domestic traffic to YouTube accidentally blocked YouTube worldwide for two hours.