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TIL the dangers of PVC.

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LkDPd TIL about shrinkflation, the practice of stealthily reducing a product's size while maintaining its price so that consumers may unknowingly pay the same for less. According to the UK’s Office of National Statistics, 2,529 supermarket products decreased in size or weight between 2012 and 2017.
R7am8 TIL Stanley Kubrick was supposed to give Malcolm McDowell 2.5% of the profit from A Clockwork Orange, but never told McDowell about the arrangement and never gave him the money.
4X865 TIL Finland has a unit of measurement, “poronkusema,” that means “the distance a reindeer could travel without stopping to urinate.”
N7ADN TIL New York City once had two competing police forces - city and state - who rioted in front of City Hall
16Qn4 TIL Prince began grooming his future wife Mayte Garcia when she was 16 and he was 31.