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TIL American Cheese cannot legally be sold as cheese in America

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l7LLa TIL Icarus is actually a story about finding the middle way between the wing-melting sun and ocean, the earliest surviving example of the "golden middle" in Ancient Greek philosophy
yjwa TIL that in Canada, a piece of land must have a tree on it to be called Island.
VMxdm TIL that the Elan "therapeutic" school, infamous for torturing its students who weren't allowed to contact the outside world, had a form of punishment where well behaved students would beat up poorly behaved ones. One student punished in this way was killed. The school covered it up for years.
x8WD TIL that Frank Sinatra was contractually obliged to be offered the role of John McClain in Die Hard, despite being 73 years old.
0dRPN TIL prehistoric cave art may have been an early form of cinema. When torch light is simulated at the historic hearth, superimposed images on the wall appeared to move. Rhinos charge, antelope leap and arrows fly.