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TIL Crows remember faces and hold grudges

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Oovm1 TIL the FDA has finally added a daily percentage to added sugars in foods and drink. A single can of Coke contains 78% of your daily recommended sugar intake.
b9ZN9 TIL that a US federal law, still in existence, permits any US citizen to take possession of any unclaimed island, anywhere in the world — as long as the island has deposits of bird poop on it.
yQ6gV TIL almost 10% of all the concrete used in the WW2 German Atlantic Wall went on the fortification of the tiny Channel islands. The 1944 allied invasion of France simply ignored them, finally liberating them in May 1945.
VMyZ TIL that Hans Zimmer, one of Hollywood’s elite composers (Rain Man, The Lion King, Gladiator), was a member of The Buggles, famous for their hit single Video Killed the Radio Star
VBpv4 TIL that local time changes of as little as 2 minutes between cities was common before the adoption of standardized time zones, so railroad companies set up "comparative time zone" tables using Washington DC at noon as a benchmark for train scheduling.