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TIL Many popular food dishes and food brands you’d find throughout the U.S, are outright banned in other countries.

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9YarQ TIL Medical Errors are the third leading cause of death in the United States after heart disease and cancer !
e0loE TIL that John Glenn, the first American to orbit the earth, spotted a cloud of strange glowing “fireflies” on his second orbit. Later NASA confirmed that the fireflies were simply droplets of his own urine that had been expelled from his craft during his previous orbit.
vDOr TIL All of Roosevelt’s speechwriters were out of town the weekend around the Pearl Harbor attack, so he was left alone to draft what was going to be the most important speech of his presidency.
VMEn8 TIL In 1859, a man imported 24 rabbits to Australia. In under 70 years, the populaton grew to 10 billion.
7AAp TIL a .25 square mile town of 5 people was created in New Jersey just so the country club members could play golf on Sunday.