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TIL Candy Manufacturer Haribo Recalls Sweets After Cannabis Found In Them

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69lrX TIL old batteries contained cadmium, a toxic heavy metal. These batteries should not be disposed of in regular household trash at the end of their life.
KYX4R TIL In the Middle Ages in Europe they would burn cats for entertainment, sometimes symbolically as they associated them with witchcraft
xOJw TIL that in 2014 Toshiba has repurposed its floppy disk factory, that hasn’t been used for nearly two decades into a vegetable farm
9wy0D TIL that since 1945, the Netherlands has sent Canada thousands of tulips every year as a thank-you for sheltering their royal family during WWII. This annual gift led to the creation of the famous Canadian Tulip Festival.
9w7QG TIL Adolf Hitler was worried Kilroy was the codename of a high-level Allied spy & Stalin was terrified when he found "Kilroy was here" written in the VIP bathroom. The first modern instance of a meme as counter intelligence.