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TIL journalist Sara Bongiorni and her family tried to live without Chinese made goods for a year and found it almost impossible

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epZWD TIL that Pantone’s infamous “ugliest color” was renamed from olive green in Australia after offense from actual olive growers
YpveB TIL of the 1904 disaster of the burning and sinking of sidewheel passenger steamboat PS General Slocum. At the time of the accident, she was on a chartered run carrying members of St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church to a church picnic. An estimated 1,021 of the 1,342 people on board died.
vWjK TIL British spies stopped using semen as invisible ink because it began to smell if it wasn’t fresh.
01gN TIL Coca-Cola still uses coca leaves in its signature syrup, and there is only one factory in the US with the unique DEA license required to remove the cocaine.
wLwDo TIL the “Q” in Q-tip stands for “quality”.