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TIL that in France, only croissants made with 100% pure butter can be straight under culinary law. All others have to be shaped differently.

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4kR8N TIL 9/11 killed the bizarre Forrest Gump sequel
gM0J9 TIL: Niels Bohr didn't actually have a beer pipeline installed in the house gifted to him by Carlsberg. The story was invented by an overly enthusiastic science professor in England with a YouTube show and then spread by journalists who didn't fact check the story for accuracy.
N77mQ TIL Inbreeding is a humongous problem in the middle east. 70% of marriages in Pakistan are between first cousins, and roughly 50% of people in the 'Arab world' are 'inbred'.
QxDk TIL that in the wake of the Katrina disaster, police from the New Orleans suburb of Gretna blocked desperate evacuees from crossing a bridge over the Mississippi River, turning back hundreds by firing guns in the air over the crowd.
d87EB TIL that Americans consume an average of 152 pounds of sugar a year each. If the population of the US is 328,000,000 people, that means that the US consumes 25,000,000 tons of sugar a year on average. This number does not include the amount of sugar exported in products to other countries.