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TIL that companies such as Wholefoods, Starbucks, Microsoft, IBM make use of prison labour

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l7jRB TIL that the Faber-Castell pencil company was founded in 1761, and is one of the world's oldest industrial companies and has been run by the same family for nine generations!
b98oa TIL although the moon is the brightest object in Earth's sky, its albedo or reflectivity is actually quite low, about the same as worn asphalt.
1lLd TIL Whalebone corsets were not made of bone, but of baleen, a whale’s filter plate.
v1Nwr TIL at Live Aid Bono noticed that a girl was being suffocated in the crowd, tried to get security to help her out, but when they didn’t understand what he meant, he jumped off the stage and helped security pull her out. She later said that Bono saved her life that day.
N7oN TIL that Bobby Fischer played the “Game of the Century” in tournament play in which he sacrificed his queen and won the game. And he was 13years old when it did it.