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TIL in 2017 the FDA banned a bakery from listing 'love' as an ingredient on its granola

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kOxn5 TIL when the Unknown Warrior was laid to rest 'among the kings' in Westminster Abbey, the guests of honor were a group of about one hundred women. They had been chosen because they had each lost their husband and all their sons in the war.
6Ek1W Today I learned that NBA Hall of Famer Shaquille O’Neal only scored one three-pointer in his entire career.
6KvY TIL that Mel Brooks is one of twelve people to ever win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony (an EGOT) and the only person to ever receive those four plus awards from the American Film Institute and the Kennedy Center
Z8evY TIL that H1N1, the influenza strain that caused the 1918 flu pandemic, survived another 40+ years as a seasonal flu bug. It was finally “extinguished” by another flu virus, H2N2, in the 1957 flu pandemic. Even so, a “new” H1N1 emerged 50 years later to cause the 2009 “swine flu” pandemic.
eQd6 TIL people worry about kids eating lead paint chips, not because kids are stupid and will eat anything, but because lead is sweet like candy.