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TIL that property developers have figured out that giving artists temporary housing/workspaces is a first step to making an area more profitable. Once gentrification sets in, the artists are booted out. It’s called “artwashing”.

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9YyWr TIL Blaise Diagne,born in Senegal,was the 1st black African elected to the French Chamber of Deputies in 1914,also hold a position in the French gvt. His son would become the 1st black footballer in France,and won it in 1936. His grandson would be mayor of a French town until he died in 2017
o0J7 TIL that until 2015 a French law prohibited bakers in Paris from taking vacations at the same time, to avoid a bread shortage like the one that helped cause the French Revolution. Bakers met to decide who would be open in July and who would be open in August.
Zw5v TIL In Illinois, the legal definition of “candy” is specifically tied into the absence of flour. Whoppers contain flour and are taxed 5% less as a regular food item
MepgB TIL President George H.W. Bush called Portland the Beirut of the United States
dLAQ TIL Nestle promised none of their products would be made using child slavery by 2005. When the deadline was reached and it was found they did not keep their promise, they started suing companies releasing reports about it.