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TIL strikebreakers are used more frequently in the United States than in any other industrialized nation

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OoOPL TIL Nazis built a concentration camp on the isle of Alderney in the British isles
KQYw TIL Leó Szilárd, physicist directly responsible for the creation of the Manhattan Project, wanted to have a test explosion that could be witnessed by Japanese observers for them to surrender while sparing lives
VMbAG TIL that oranges from Florida are artificially dyed to look good to shoppers because they are still green when ripe
6Enl TIL that the FBI assigned a team to Sacha Baron Cohen during the filming of Borat due to reports of a “Middle eastern man traveling the midwest in an ice cream truck.”
x6NVo TIL shadows on the moon are much darker than shadows on the Earth due to the lack of atmosphere scattering the sunlight.