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TIL that London used to have an underground railway solely dedicated to the distribution of mail.

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7r4OM TIL that the FDA has no food regulation powers and that a lot of food produced in America has to have a healthier version made to be sellable in other countries: other markets have a “prove it’s safe or you can’t sell it” policy whereas America uses the “we say it’s safe, prove it’s not” model.
69pX7 TIL that researchers have developed a blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer before symptoms appear, with a false positive rate of less than 1%
8aXoL TIL that Dionne Quan, voice actress of Nickelodeon characters such as Kimi from The Rugrats, is legally blind and has all of her scripts printed in Braille.
YpwDd TIL that the USA makes by far the most cheese in the world but doesn't even make the top 10 in terms of consumption
GADOg TIL Jimmy Carter met his future wife, Rosalynn, three days after she was born, when Lillian Carter brought her 3 year old son to meet a newborn she helped deliver. They started dating 18 years later, in 1945.