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TIL that although Tic Tacs are almost 100% sugar, FDA regulations allow them to be advertised as 0 grams of sugar per serving due to their size

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BYpk TIL Numerous people have been killed singing the Frank Sinatra song “My Way” in karaoke bars in the Philippines. The news media has recorded at least half a dozen “My Way Killings” in the last decade, and many bars have removed the song from their playbooks.
Egox7 TIL More than 14,000 needles are cleaned up from public spaces across Boston every week. Boston has four employees assigned to pick up used syringes and eight outreach workers who collects needles as they attempt to connect people to recovery services
64Yw TIL, speedlimits are somewhat pointless. When limits were changed by as much a 20mph, the rate vehicles traveled didn’t change. What did was the number of citations given.
epWQE TIL that, during WW2, the USA wanted to turn France into a puppet state and abolish its'national sovereignty
D186p Today I Learned that propane has no smell. That smell of rotting eggs associated with propane is actually ethanethiol, a “stench gas” used as an additive in odorless combustible gasses to help accidental ingesters to identify it as a danger.