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TIL that Canada is making numerous changes to its food labeling laws. Among other changes, companies must list the daily value of sugar on their nutrition labels, and also must group sugar-based ingredients together in ingredient lists

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x6o5o TIL the KGB once smuggled a Sidewinder missile from West Germany by mailing it in pieces to Moscow. An agent earlier broke it through the back window of his Mercedes to drive back from the airbase, marked with a red cloth as required by law. He had brought it down the entire runway in a wheelbarrow.
D10Ve TIL Throughout the 1930s, Hollywood studios worked with Nazi Germany to self-censor and avoid certain topics and depictions in their movies in order to avoid being banned from the (then) lucrative German film market.
J4Vv TIL that the first king of Belgium was German, fought in the Russian army, married an English princess and had previously turned down the chance to become king of Greece.
e4Qk TIL The Blues Brothers movie was not available in predominately white neighborhoods, for Mann Theaters. They didn’t think the movie would be successful with white audiences.
lX7r TIL it’s still unknown how Stegasaurus’s were able to mate without hurting each other with their spiky backs.