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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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LklyZ TIL that the world's oldest still-functioning light bulb is purported to be the Centennial Light in Livermore, California. Maintained by the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Dept, the bulb was installed in 1901 and has only been turned off a handful of times.
1apdd TIL 'Weird Al' Yankovic recorded a parody of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," entitled "Perform This Way," and all of the proceeds from the parody and its music video were donated to the Human Rights Campaign, to support the human rights themes of the original song.
rR1mw TIL governments banned the Incandescent Lightbulb for not being efficient enough, but MIT researchers developed an incandescent bulb more efficient than LED bulbs.
b6g0Q TIL Lady Gaga snuck in NSFW lyrics into her popular song Poker Face. Only 1 radio station caught the edit (not a part of official lyrics) and called her on it. She hid "Fuck her face" in plain daylight as the response to "Poker Face"
xV8J1 TIL that Charles Manson was briefly a Scientologist, but left because he found it to be "too crazy".