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TIL The number 9 prefix added to a Price Look Up barcode on fruits signifies that an item is organic

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wLaZ6 TIL The board game Candy Land was made to entertain hospital-bound children during the Polio Pandemic
9wA6r TIL toilet paper wasn’t “splinter free” until the 1930’s
pYWPe TIL Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading medical cause of death in college athletes, especially among males, African Americans, and basketball players
xVYko TIL during the persecution of English Catholics, Nicholas Owen built secret compartments called "priest holes" into Catholic houses to hide priests from being rounded up. 400 years later some may still be undiscovered, since Owen was tortured to death rather than give up their locations.
Zv9v TIL that during Christmas deliveries, Santa consumes enough cookies to supply him, calorically, for approximately 59,000 years.