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TIL fruit stickers are made out of edible paper. Even the glue is food grade.

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69YNw TIL Octopus Wrestling was a famous sport back in the 60s.
7onx TIL Coca Cola still uses coca leaves in its production and is the only company in the US allowed by the DEA to import the leaves. More than a quarter ton of cocaine is extracted from these leaves each year and sold to a St. Louis company for ‘medicinal’ uses.
jdGX TIL that in 1586 a pregnant widow wrote a letter to her partner, who had died at the age of 30. This was found by archaeologists in South Korea in 1998, intact with the man’s mummified body and a pair of sandals woven from hemp and the woman’s hair.
LVx9 TIL: During the First Wave of Feminism a Spanish mother raised her child to be the Woman of the Future she spoke 6 languages when eight years old, finished Law School at 17 and then her mother shot her to death.
ANMex TIL Tony's Chocolate bars are unequally divided by design to represent the inequality in profits within the chocolate industry. The chunks to the bottom left corner of the bar represent Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo+Benin, Nigeria, & Cameroon + the Gulf of Guinea, source of 60% world cocoa supply.