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TIL That One Japanese Company (YKK) Makes Half Of The World’s Zippers

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6EVLw TIL Turks and Caicos, a Caribbean island country, has openly flirted with the idea of joining Canada as a province, with 90% support of the island's population at one point. Canada has shied away from accepting the offer due to socio-economic reasons, but has never said no.
bWjZ TIL George Clooney raised a pet pig for 18 years until it passed of old age, It was sometimes featured in interviews with Clooney, who called him “Max, the star.”
GYBg1 TIL that until 1999 in Germany, bribes were a tax-deductible business expense, and there were no penalties for bribing foreign officials. The German company Siemens used to engage in bribery in developing countries, where bribery was common, and continued to do so after criminalizing it in 1999.
5Z89 TIL the son of the man who founded conversion therapy came out as gay.
B5gL TIL A 2-year study that linked Ecstasy to Parkinsons was retracted from the journal Science after the authors realized they had accidentally used meth instead.