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TIL Harvard University has it’s own food chart that doesn’t include dairy or meat as categories

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4XgX6 TIL that as a white belt, Paul Walker told his BJJ coach that he would get his black belt "even if he needed to get it in his coffin", shortly after Walker's death, that same coach awarded Walker his black belt and told his father he could put it in his coffin.
8eBL TIL that American cheese isn’t labeled cheese because it’s not real cheese, and that the only difference between the white and orange types is food coloring
0mG5 TIL North Korea has opened restaurants in various Asian countries (and reopened one in Amsterdam) as a way to make money for the regime
yQwBe TIL during WW1, Germany used cow intestines to make Zeppelin airships, and made so many that it became illegal to make sausages, as it diverted cow intestines from the war effort. 250,000 cows were needed for each zeppelin!
1Y6D TIL of the myth of superabundance, which is the belief that no matter how many natural resources humanity uses, the planet will continuously replenish the supply