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TIL a barcode scanner reads the white bars, and not the black bars

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R5n49 TIL that thanks to the efforts of Carter Center, the painful guinea worm disease has been reduced from 3.5 million cases a year to 13 in 2022.
nWx5P TIL of Columbia, the personification of the United States for over 200 years, and was even the alternate name for the United States. She is the reason for the District of Columbia, British Columbia, etc. She was replaced by Lady Liberty, and was gradually forgotten after WWI.
MePgA TIL Peanut butter manufacturers fought a 12 year legal battle with the FDA over the minimum peanut content required to be legally labelled as "peanut butter". Anything under 90% peanuts must be labelled "peanut spread".
ODK6 TIL When a male honey bee climaxes during sex, his testicles explode and he dies.
rjOx TIL in 2000 a Korean couple spent their life savings to bring a Pan Am 747 to Seoul and set it up as a restaurant. The restaurant failed, leaving the couple living in a hut below the airplane. The 747 was torn down for scrap metal in 2010.