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TIL that the Food and Drug Administration has a Most Wanted list that focuses on criminal activities related to FDA-regulated products, mostly prescription drugs and medical products. It includes a guy who imported counterfeit Colgate toothpaste

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e0EKn TIL of 3,500 mosquito species a few hundred bite humans. The larvae are food for other larvae and for beneficial insects, put nutrients into many ecosystems, are food for fish, help break down debris in waterways, and pollinate plants. But scientists think ecosystems will adjust if we eliminate them
b6Ly0 TIL The little tune that Samsung’s washing machines plays when they’re finished washing is from Franz Schubert’s “The trout”
nWgeY TIL Sam Wanamaker, actor and the director of the pilot episode of TV series Lancer as featured in Tarantino's Once Upon Time in Hollywood, also led efforts to build a replica of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre on London's South Bank, near the original site.
e04kL TIL a pilot drunkenly stole and landed planes on the streets of Manhattan twice in the 1950s. The first was to prove how quickly he could get to NYC from NJ. The second was because a bar patron didn't believe his first story.
Brgjr TIL ABC only aired "Clerks: The Animated Show" twice before canceling it. They aired the fourth episode first, and then aired the second episode despite the fact that the second episode is a 'flashback' episode, and derives much of its humor from the fact that it flashes back to the first episode.