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TIL Syracuse, NY has the only upside-down traffic light in the world

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1dVd TIL The Welsh word for “Jellyfish” is “Psygod wibli wobli”
wo8kE TIL that the FDA regulates pet food like they do human food, and it has to be edible by humans!
EWlw TIL that in the Vietnamese version of Cinderella (Tam Cam), at the end, Cinderella dismembered her step sister, put the body into a jar of food and sent it to her step mother to eat, which she enjoyed until she found the skull at the bottom of the jar and died of shock.
k45m TIL that a woman almost lost custody of her children because a DNA test showed that her children weren’t hers. Turns out there are humans who exist with two sets of DNA if two fertilized eggs fuse together during conception. The matching DNA was eventually found in her cervical tissue.
6Jg7 Til before Coca-Cola, there was Coca Wine, 10% alcohol and 8.5% cocaine extract by volume, and endorsed by Queen Victoria and Pope Leo XIII.