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TIL that in Finland meat sold in supermarkets has been labeled with the info on which farm the animals grew on.

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XE7or TIL the German village of Würchwitz erected a statue of a cheese mite to honor its role in making Würchwitz's special cheese, Milbenkäse. The cheese mites help make the cheese by excreting their digestive juices over the cheese.
o04K TIL The reason Popeye eats spinach is because of an error in the calculation of its iron content by chemist Erich von Wolf in 1870. He misplaced a decimal point, recording iron as having 35mg of iron per 100g, instead of its true value of 3.5mg/100g. The former is equal to eating part of a paperclip
MJkB TIL: in 1914 Daniel Hess refused to sell the last bit of his property to the city of New York after the rest his property had been seized via eminent domain, and today it remains on the sidewalk with a tile that reads “Property of the Hess Estate Which Has Never Been Dedicated For Public Purposes”
kL01 TIL that Estelline, TX ranks as one of the worst speed trap cities in the US. With a population of 168 people, it’s only police officer writes an average of 23 tickets a day bringing in more than $300,000 of ticket revenue a year
rNJPM TIL about tulou, giant walled villages built by the Hakka ethnic group of China. Tulou could fit up to 800 people inside them with farms, houses and even markets. They were designed by the Hakka for protection from attacks by the Cantonese ethnic group the Punti in one of the many wars they fought.