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TIL in 1982 the US government filed an anti-trust lawsuit against AT&T which forced them to spin out several smaller companies which, as of 2006, have all been rebought and merged back into AT&T.

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p8wLb TIL the former dictator of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bédel Bokassa, forced the nation's school children to buy expensive uniforms from a company he owned. When the children protested, he had 100 of them executed as an example.
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