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TIL when Apple finds underage workers in its suppliers’ factories they make the suppliers return the children to their homes, pay for their education and continue to provide income for basic needs until they reach the legal working age. After this, suppliers must offer them reemployment.

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awRa9 TIL that 9,000 Fallen Soldiers Were Etched into the Sand on Normandy Beach to Commemorate Peace Day in 2013. This Was Meant As A Stark Visual Reminder Of The Civilians, Germans And Allied Forces Who Died During The D-Day Beach Landings At Arromanches
N4ge TIL During an interview about the casting of Jean-Luc Picard, Gene Roddenberry was asked by a reporter, “Surely they would have cured baldness by the 24th century?” Roddenberry answered, “In the 24th century, they wouldn’t care.”
ep4w4 TIL that Mae Jemison, the first African-American woman in Space, was so inspired by Nichelle Nichols' portrayal of Lieutenant Uhura on Stark Trek that she began every shift of her 1992 Shuttle mission by radioing "Hailing Frequencies Open" as a tribute to the actress and her character.
l7N6G TIL Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), also known as prion diseases has no known treatment and cure and is 100% fatal
YpQ4B Today I learned that pixie dust in Peter Pan was added later on because children reading the story would think they too could fly like Peter Pan. Apparently there was a rash of young children hurting themselves by trying to fly like pan