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TIL The stickers on fruit are FDA approved and edible

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6EYMJ TIL about Baijiu the most consumed distilled liquor in the world. This traditional Chinese liquor is said to be the most consumed spirit in the world, but only a small amount is found outside the country’s borders.
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nePL7 TIL that the confederate president tried to escape capture dressed as an old women at the end of the civil war
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6E1RY TIL the origin of Backslash in MS Windows. Unix introduced in '70 the forward slash as its directory separator. In '81 MS-DOS 1.0 didn’t support directories at all and already were using "/" as switch operator, hence the DOS 2 had to chose the "\" as the only viable to keep compatibility.