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TIL the FDA requires the stickers you find on fruit to be completely edible

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eopb TIL United Airlines lost a 10 year old girl on a layover flight in Chicago, she asked for help 4 times before her mother (in another state) got an employee to finally get her child to her destination
Y7jO7 TIL that there are ‘rainbow mountains’ in China, where the layers of rock are so vividly colored due to mineral deposits that they look like a painting.
WkxgX TIL that North Korea attempted to build a luxury hotel named the Ryugyong Hotel in 1987. This hotel is still under construction to this day. It is also the tallest unoccupied building in the world.
a8Ako TIL the oldest pancake race in the world still takes place in Olney in the UK, and dates back to 1445
AN5gl TIL the decibel scale is logarithmic, similar to the Richter scale used to measure earthquakes. This means a100 decibel sound is 10 billion times louder than a 10 decibel sound.