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TIL A US McDonald’s Medium cup is bigger than a Japanese large

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E1Wld TIL Apples do not reproduce true to type, meaning that the tree from the seed will produce apples that are almost certain to be different than the parent. Unless you pollinate the tree by hand, there is no way to know who the other parent is, considering bees could have used almost every other tree
R70aj TIL because of the 2008 Chinese milk scandal causing mistrust in local suppliers, it is estimated that up to 80% to 90% of infant formula purchased in Australia is destined for China.
x6Nr0 TIL that the Christian portrayal of the fruit that Eve ate as an apple may come down to a Latin pun. Eve ate a “mālum” (apple) and also took in “malum” (evil). There’s no Biblical evidence that the fruit was an apple.
j6MlX TIL - The oldest human footprints in England were found in Norfolk and believed to be 850,000-years old
8aJQa TIL the man responsible for cookies is Lou Montulli. He developed one of the earliest Web browsers, Lynx, in 1991, and was responsible for a variety of Web innovations including the blink tag, server push and client pull, and HTTP proxying.