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TIL 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since World Cup awarded

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D6Zg TIL that Everton FC’s store in its home city centre, Liverpool One, is named Everton Two; thus resulting in the full address of “Everton Two Liverpool One”.
9YQlM TIL Reebok has been owned by Adidas since 2005.
jNmkR TIL about #OpJustina which was an attack on Boston Children’s Hospital to demand the release of Justina Pelletier— a little girl being held against her will by the state of Massachusetts. She was taken from her parents after the hospital thought her mitochondrial illness was psychological.
kL9d TIL the Last words of the inventor of Air Conditioner on his death bed were “It’ll be a Cold Day in Hell!”
oRV6L TIL that the Battle of Manila was the scene of some of the most brutal fighting in WW2 and one of the most devastated cities alongside Berlin and Warsaw