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TIL Tic Tacs are allowed to say they contain zero sugar even though they're almost entirely pure sugar -- because a single Tic Tac is 0.49 g and technically if a serving of a food contains < 0.5 g sugar you are allowed to round down to zero.

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5Y81Q TIL the Chinese phrase 日本鬼子 - Rìběn guǐzi, meaning "Japanese Devils" can be pronounced in Japanese as Hinomoto Oniko, which resembles a girl's name. Consequently, users of the Japanese imageboard 2channel created an anime character for the phrase.
mxKGp TIL Galaga (1981) had a predecessor: Galaxian (1979), which was the first popular video game to use RGB color graphics.
QJAE9 TIL that the Cuban-American Treaty of Relations (1903) states that the US is allowed to use the land surrounding Guantanamo Bay for coaling or naval stations only. The detention camp is seen as a violation of the treaty.
Z8mjR TIL in 2012, Kesha admitted that she would demand men entering her tour bus to drop their trousers and let her take pictures of their genitals, specifically for the purposes of emasculating them and letting them know they were in the "vagina jungle"
neArW TIL the 2010 Japanese earthquake/tsunami caused a single death in the United States, killing a man attempting to photograph tsunami waves that reached the California coast. His body was eventually found 330 miles to the north on a beach in Oregon.