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TIL the government sent a vegan mayonnaise company a warning letter stating that their product did not meet the legal definition of mayonnaise.

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j647p TIL cazu martzu is a cheese that has living maggots in it. If you don't chew enough the maggots can be your intestines. It is banned for obvious reasons but the demand for the maggot cheese is so large there is a black market that brings in 2-3 million euros annually
d8w0K TIL "Eat It" by Weird Al went to #1 in Australia. But Michael Jackson's "Beat It" only made it to #3.
N7LvM TIL That unlike other fish, monkfish is not kosher.
LkM1r TIL of Project Thor which explored using large projectiles from 1,000+ miles above the Earth. The "rods from god" idea was a bundle of telephone-pole-size tungsten rods, dropped from orbit, reaching up to 10 times the speed of sound. The explosion would be on par with a nuke - but no fallout.
gD98 TIL of the FP-45 Liberator, an extremely cheap single shot pistol developed by the US military to be air dropped in occupied territories during WWII. It was intended for use by resistance forces fighting axis powers.