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In China, a three-digit score could dictate your place in society

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D1JvP TIL the first flavored potato chips weren't American Barbecue, but Tayto's Salt & Vinegar and Cheese & Onion... in Ireland back in the 50s... four years before BBQ.
1axaW TIL Queen Elizabeth II is not required to have a driver's license, yet she frequently drives and has a car collection worth $10 million pounds (about $12M USD)
neB6o TIL about Homegrown National Park, an effort to plant all unpaved and unfarmed land in America, from window boxes to yards, with native plants to support the entire food chain.
ADLAl High-speed video imaging colored to reveal the two main components of a sneeze show a shower of larger droplets, green, whose trajectories can extend up to two meters from the person sneezing, yellow, and a cloud, red, made of a mixture of smaller droplets suspended in moist, warm gas. Pathogen-bearing droplets can be suspended in the air for not just seconds, but minutes, and can travel up to 27 feet.
9wP5r TIL about Kintsugi. The Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold. It signifies the breaking of an object as a part of its past, and not something to be hidden or embarrassed about.