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TIL Instead of sending labor over to China or Bangladesh, manufacturers have chosen to forcibly employ up to 2.4 million incarcerated people in the United States. Chances are high that if a product you’re holding says it is ‘American Made,’ it was made in an American prison.

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DZmD TIL in an experiment every one of 54 undergraduates in wine making and tasting thought they were tasting a red wine while it was actually a dyed white wine. Furthermore when comparing identical wine of different prices experts raved about the expensive wine while panning the cheap wine
rRpLW TIL that Collateral (2004) and The Transporter (2002) take place in the same universe. Transporter director Louis Leterrier revealed that Jason Statham reprised his role as Frank Martin when he delivered the brief case to Tom Cruise in the opening scene of Collateral.
p8eVG TIL That Florida has the 'Sunshine Law' it gives freedom of information including arrests, and this is why we hear about so many crazy people from Florida.
PYgDE TIL that according to astronauts, space smells like a strange mixture of charred meat and raspberries.
9wVem TIL the truck from Big Trouble in Little China ended up being owned by a trucker in Vermont, who drove it as a work truck