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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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gXNW TIL that jurors can find a defendant “not guilty” regardless of evidence if they believe the law broken is unjust.
woYdP TIL about Ralph C Smith, the US' last surviving WWII General, who passed away in 1998 aged 104. Not only was he the 13th person to receive a pilot's license, he was also instructed by Orville Wright.
rN7e4 TIL that ice makes a sound as it melts (after holding my ear real close to the bore of a water bottle ╰(´∇`)╯)
D1ljv TIL Pfizer seized the homes of a poor neighborhood in New London, Connecticut in 2000 to build a new research facility. Long after the homes were bulldozed, Pfizer abandoned its plans, leaving behind a wasteland.
YJVv TIL Andrew Jackson was the only U.S. President in American history to pay off the national debt