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• [Occupation fact 1] Some of the Corporations that utilize American prison labor include Wal-Mart, Eddie Bauer, Victoria's Secret, Microsoft, Starbucks, McDonald’s, Nintendo, Chevron Corporation, Bank of America, Koch Industries, Boeing and Costco Wholesale.

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• [Occupation fact 2] June 2nd is observed as International Whores' Day or International Sex Workers’ Day. The event commemorates the occupation of Église Saint-Nizier in Lyon by more than a hundred sex workers on June 2, 1975, to draw attention to their inhumane working conditions.

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• [Occupation fact 3] When a firefighter gets injured and hasn’t moved for a set amount of time, a PASS device will emit an audible alarm of at least 95db. The purpose of this is to notify other firefighters in the vicinity to rescue the injured firefighter.

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• [Occupation fact 4] Vietnam War medics formed the core of early EMS. Their training and experience were needed, as many first responders in the 60s were undertrained funeral home workers. So at that time those wounded in combat actually had a better chance of survival than those getting into car accidents in the US.

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• [Occupation fact 5] Bad classroom acoustics and high loudness levels in the classroom can have a negative effect on a teacher’s stress levels.

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• [Occupation fact 6] Firefighters that responded to 2019’s fire at Notre Dame knew which works of art to rescue and in which order following a protocol developed exactly for such kind of a disaster.

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• [Occupation fact 7] A woman named Frances Perkins was outside the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory during the fire and saw dozens of people jump to their deaths due to unsafe work conditions. She went on to become the first female Secretary of Labor and founded the Factory Investigating Commission to improve work safety.

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• [Occupation fact 8] The first firemen to respond to the Chernobyl meltdown stood above the burning core, which emitted radiation at 30,000 roentgen per hour. When they died a few weeks later, their bodies were so radioactive they were buried in coffins made of lead with the lids welded shut.

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• [Occupation fact 9] Denmark was the first nation to pay worker compensation to women, nurses, and air hostesses, who had developed breast cancer after years of night-shift work in government-sponsored jobs.

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• [Occupation fact 10] In the movie Legally Blonde, Elle Woods commits a huge ethical violation in and, in real life, she would’ve been barred from practicing law and may be subject to fines or prison time after she posed as a lawyer in attempts to get Paulette Bonafonté custody over her dog despite only being a first-year law student.

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