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TIL that Dubai has been built by slaves – foreign workers who are lured in on the promise of well-paying jobs, then are stripped of their passports and forced to work for miniscule wages under miserable conditions

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E1xBX TILT Anish Kapoor owns the exclusive rights to the blackest black and another artist called Stuart Semple created the pinkest pink for everyone to use apart from Anish
neeEP TIL the last native speaker of Scottish Norse died in 1850, and fragments survived until at least the 1890s
VVM0 TIL Reddit founder Alex Ohanian, wrote an open letter to Reddit about stopping their sexist ways. It was titled “dear fellow geeks: WTF”
PYvXO TIL Greta Garbo told her friends that she wanted to meet Adolf Hitler, who had sent her a fan letter, so she could kill him with a gun hidden in her purse.
Z8yx4 TIL that Discovery Channel lied to a scientist in order to get him to participate in a fake documentary on Voodoo sharks for Shark Week, and edited the interviews on Bull Sharks to make it appear as if he was researching the Cryptid Shark. He did not know what the program was about until it aired.