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TIL Canada has a Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve

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69Rkl TIL during World War II, the British government commissioned a project called "Operation Vegetarian," which planned to drop linseed cakes infected with anthrax over Germany to contaminate livestock and cause a food shortage. The plan was never executed, test sites remained contaminated for decades.
wL6DJ TIL that food companies learned from the 1990 Perrier Water debacle how not to do a recall after discovering product contamination.
R5766 TIL that Seahorses are the only species in which the male gets pregnant and gives birth. When mating the female deposits her eggs into the male's brood pouch, and the male fertilizes them internally. He carries the eggs in his pouch until they hatch, then releases baby seahorses into the water
p844A TIL that the US Navy ship USS New York has part of its hull forged from salvaged steel from the 9/11 attacks.
MwxV TIL that among the first people to have their genome sequenced were two white American scientists and one Korean. Surprisingly, the two whites were found to be closer genetically to the Korean than to each other.