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TIL: Pixar, Dreamworks, Disney and LucasFilms, are companies being sued in a class action lawsuit for fraud and wage-theft. The lawsuit seeks to represent “all persons who worked at (the companies) anytime from 2004 to the present"

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9YboD TIL that there is a statue known as the Liberty or Freedom statue placed on the Gellért Hill in Budapest, Hungary.
BQ1K TIL that Queen Elizabeth II served as a mechanic and driver in WWII, and is the last surviving head of state who served in uniform during the Second World War.
Oo5p6 TIL that Volvo invented the three-point seatbelt, then gave the invention away for free. They decided it was too important of an invention to keep to themselves.
awowN TIL there’s a cafe in east London called the Cereal Killer Cafe which is solely dedicated to selling cereals from across the world.
WkeV9 TIL that in an attempt to modernize Newfoundland, Canada, the province's Premier hired the former Latvian Minister of Finance, Alfred Valdmanis. While industrializing the province, Valdmanis embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars before being unmasked as a criminal and former Nazi collaborator.