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TIL the United States ranks third in food quality and safety, behind Denmark and Canada.

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nWVw9 TIL: During WWI, American sauerkraut producers relabeled the product as ‘liberty cabbage’ due to concerns the public would reject a product with a German name
ymNM TIL that Carl Stalling, the composer behind Bugs Bunny, spent 22 years working every day with a 50-piece orchestra at Warner Bros. Studios. He ultimately scored in excess of 600 cartoons at the rate of one score per week between 1936 and 1958.
dN1d TIL that the leading zipper brand, YKK, was fined $150 million euros for running not one, but four zipper price-fixing cartels.
Ypv47 TIL 442nd Infantry Regiment which comprised of 2nd Gen Japanese Americans is the most decorated unit in US military history.
D1bKp TIL that in the past, Harry Belafonte had been barred from the door of the world famous nightclub the Copacabana because of his color, and then later he’d be headlining the joint.