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TIL that after several food safety scandals that led to several deaths, The director of the Chinese State Food and Drug Administration was convicted of corruption and executed

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p8ZMA TIL that German is an official language of Belgium despite being spoken natively by less than 1% of the population
kWB4 TIL that Bill Murray is thought to have coined the modern use of the phrase “you’re toast” by ad libbing a line in Ghost Busters (1984)
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