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TIL luxury brands like Prada and Louis Vuitton have worse records for using forced labor than many cheaper and 'fast fashion' brands

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9wPJG TIL That, during a tour of the liberated Buchenwald Concetration Camp, General George S. Patton was forced to go behind a building and vomit.
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