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TIL that orange juice loses all of it’s flavor during the de-oxyginaztion process, what allows the juice to keep in vats for up to a year. Juice company’s hire the manufactures of such perfumes as CK and Dior to make “flavor packs” to make the flavorless liquid taste like juice again.

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