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TIL that the ingredient’s list on food items is actually ordered by weight

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OyQL TIL In eight years, Utah has quietly reduced homelessness by 78 percent, and is on track to end homelessness by 2015
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BjxL TIL Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea from 2003 to 2008, killed himself in 2009 by jumping off a cliff. His left-wing party chose to delay the opening of parliament until the right-wing government of the time accepted responsibility for his suicide.
KOrOQ TIL that people with German ethnicity were expelled from eastern Europe the years after WW2. Approximately 12 million people were forcefully transferred, with between 500,000 to 2 million dying in the process. This event have been called a democide, or even a genocide, by some historians.
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