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TIL Citric acid, which is widely used in the food and beverage industry is exclusively produced by fermentation with filamentous fungus Aspergillus niger.

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5wWQ TIL that fashion and style aficionados look for collar gaps on your clothes to tell if you get your clothes tailored or not.
oRZYr TIL in 2018, footwear retailer Payless set up a fake luxury store. Their aim was to see if people would be willing to pay luxury prices for their discount footwear. It succeeded, with shoppers agreeing to pay upto about $600 for footwear that would typically cost between $19.99 and $39.99.
xVdvb TIL that in 1659 the Massachusetts Bay Colony imposed a penalty for observing Christmas due to its pagan origins, calling it a “great dishonnor of God and offence of others.”
XE0ek TIL: Originally, Superman couldnt fly. Until animators wanted him to, he could only "Leap tall buildings in a single bound"
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