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TIL Frito-Lay created an environmentally friendly 100% compostable chip bag but had to remove it from the market because people complained that it was too noisy.

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MNw8 TIL Saudi Arabia promotes practice of marriage between close relatives which has produced high level of several genetic disorder including thalassemia, sickle cell anemia, spinal muscular atrophy, deafness and muteness.
v1DP7 TIL that cheetahs are so instinctively shy animals, especially in captivity, that they even fail to procreate. And so for years, conservationists have been giving cheetahs emotional support dogs who are raised with them and help them socialise and reduce anxiety.
oRnZE TIL the fortune cookie is not a Chinese creation, but originated in Kyoto, Japan. It was only during WWII that the cookie became part of Chinese-American cuisine.
XPRX TIL Mike Patton, who is known for his vast range of vocal abilities, voiced all of the infected in I Am Legend.
wL1K7 TIL about Mary the Jewess, one of the first alchemical writers, living between the first and third centuries AD. She is credited with the invention of several kinds of chemical apparatus and is considered to be the first true alchemist of the Western world.