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TIL Canada has a Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve

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PYQQV TIL that the phrase 'you can't have your cake and eat it too" is backwards from the original and correct expression, 'you can't eat your cake and have it too'
kMPm TIL Rupert Murdoch, acting CEO of Fox News, was “not a fit person to exercise the stewardship of a major international company” after an investigation that his companies regularly hacked the phones of celebrities, royalty, and public citizens.
e0koL TIL Chipotle pioneered a program to recycle their used gloves into trash bags. Their goal was to reduce waste to landfills by 50% by 2020. 95% of food industry gloves go to landfills because no commercial solution existed, until now.
XENA6 Today I learned that the handkerchief on a stick (that is seen in movies carried by hobos to carry their stuff) is called a bindle.
9JxG TIL the earliest known recipe for macaroni & cheese dates back to 14th century England