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TIL the FDA allows 11 rodent hairs per 25g paprika, 60 parasitic cysts per 100 fish, 2500 aphids per 10g of hops, and 1 maggot per 250ml orange juice

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8eJwZ TIL the Olympic Village of the 1980 Winter Games held in Lake Placid became a Federal prison
bkVp TIL The opposite phenomenon of a déjà vu exists and is called jamais vu. It could be described as a person who does not recognise a word or, a person or place, despite rationally knowing that its known already.
1EOV TIL until 1975 a French husband had the legal right to kill a cheating wife. Honor killings for adultery were legal until 1991 in Brazil and until 2005 in Haiti.
Lkn5m TIL In 2018 the Cornish Language Board said that singer Gwenno's album Le Kov, which features entirely Cornish lyrics, had led to a 15% increase in the number of people taking Cornish language exams
eVok TIL that there is a fluid that when super cooled becomes a superfluid which defies gravity and can leak through solid glass