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TIL Nutrition Labeling of food was not required until 1994 in the US, and was considered controversial at the time.

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v1b5j TIL, after 9/11, the Clear Channel Memoradum banned 164 songs from radio airplay, such as Metallica’s “Seek & Destroy”, the Beatles “ Lucy in the Sky with a Diamonds”, AC/DC’s “TNT”, Paul McCartney and Wings “Live and Let Die”, and Rage Against The Machine’s entire catalog.
79YL TIL Joseph Christopher (serial killer who murdered 12+) tried to check himself into a psychiatric center just weeks before he began his murder spree
XZRP TIL that serial killer Joseph Briggen always had prize-winning hogs at the California state fair. He’d state “it’s all in the feeding” when asked about his success. He was arrested when it was learned he was feeding his ranch workers to the hogs.
v1Mor TIL as of 2019 the recommended prefix for 10^27 is "ronna" and for 10^30 is "quecca".
16r1V TIL: We know exactly who was the first person to LOL: some guy from Canada called Wayne Pearson