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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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E1jrx TIL Ibrahim II of Ifriqiya ordered the execution of every one of his daughters upon birth. When he learned that sixteen of his daughters had escaped notice and had grown to adulthood, he invited them to a reception, greeted them kindly and then beheaded all of them.
d8ng9 TIL that Pandora's Box is a mistranslation. In the original story of Pandora, the container was actually a large storage jar, meaning we should be saying "Pandora's Jar."
OGn0a TIL NASA landed on the moon using a computer with just 4KB of RAM
e01B6 TIL that in Montreal, buildings cannot exceed a height of 233 m(764ft), in order not to hide the Mount Royal.
5Yg5r TIL that when the lone male in a group of Blue Head Wrasse fish dies, the largest female transforms into a male, and resumes the male’s duties.