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TIL Bill Murray was apparently forced to promote the new Ghostbusters movie under threat of lawsuit (according to leaked Sony emails)

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Rdb8 TIL: In January 2012, 150 employees of Foxconn, Taiwanese technology company and contract manufacturer for products including the iPhone, iPad and Playstation 4, threatened to commit mass suicide in protest of their working conditions
M61V TIL the show Deadliest Catch negatively impacts the entire Bering Sea crabbing industry by artificially lowering the operating costs of the boats on the show due to their subsidy from Discovery, allowing them to undercut the competition
8eJX4 TIL: Amniotic fluid dries into a fern pattern on a slide on its own without anything added to it
7rkBL TIL Robert E. Lee opposed building public memorials to the Confederacy. Shortly after his death, admirers made him the centerpiece of the "Lost Cause of the Confederacy" movement.
9Gp6 TIL the Soviet Union lasted long enough to be given it’s own internet domain name, .su, which it received only 15 months before dissolving