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TIL The Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust is a grain reserve of commodities and cash. In 2008 the USDA sold the remaining stocks into an all cash reserve. Since it no longer holds commodities, it can respond to local food crises outside the US, but not to a global one that affects the USA itself.

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n9ro TIL that there is a restaurant in Cardiff Prison which is open to the public, where the food is cooked and served by prison inmates who are training for a career in catering
rNK51 TIL it was illegal to sell beef-on-the-bone in the UK between 1997 and 1999, in an attempt to limit the spread of mad cow disease
GYEJE TIL that "Flash Gordon" is Queen Elizabeth II's favourite film, and she watches it with her grandchildren every Christmas. When actor Brian Blessed met the Queen, she asked him that if he doesn't mind, because she had the grandchildren there, would he mind saying "Gordon’s alive"?
wD0o TIL Cheese originally started being dyed yellow and orange in the 17th century to fool people into thinking it was a higher quality
R7G6 TIL that Mexico threatened to stop buying US corn unless they could sell the US avocados.