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TIL that doing your job exactly by the rules laid out is a way labor can do a strike while not actually striking.

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Jdel TIL that Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Chairman of Nestlé) said that the idea of water as a basic human right is “extreme”
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x6KpD TIL when Rita Hayworth learned the atomic bomb that was scheduled to be tested at Bikini atoll would feature her likeness, she was offended. Her husband Orson Welles later recalled she was the angriest she had ever been thinking it was a publicity stunt orchestrated by the head of Columbia Pictures.
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