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TIL: Special K is banned in Denmark for being fortified with “toxic” doses of nutrients

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69ggQ TIL more than 100 million trees are destroyed every year for junk mail
rbyy TIL of Robert “Yummy” Sandifer, an extremely troubled 11 year old boy from Chicago who had commited 23 felonies and 5 misdemeanors by the time he was murdered by his own gang at age 11.
xMyb TIL Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to be elected to Congress, voted in favor of the original House resolution that ultimately gave women the right to vote. She later noted that she was “the only woman who ever voted to give women the right to vote.”
ML9B TIL that if the man rationing the rum on a ship was suspected of cheating would be challenged to mix the rum with gunpowder. rum that was not watered down and was “over proof”, would still allow the power to ignite, coining the term.
jNOQp TIL background singers in the Beatles' All You Need Is Love include Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Keith Moon, Graham Nash and Eric Clapton.