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TIL the European Union banned the marketing of products as "superfood" unless accompanied by an authorized health claim supported by factual scientific evidence

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699RZ TIL Hugo Broch, a Luftwaffe pilot credited with 81 victories in 324 missions, all on the Eastern Front, is 100 years old and still alive.
wvPP TIL: that The word “companion”, from the Latin word, com meaning “with” and panis meaning “bread”.
pYa54 TIL that approximately 70% of the world’s vegetarians live in India.
OwD1 TIL that in response to a “catastrophic emergency,” the United States government can be suspended and replaced with a single, combined branch “coordinated” by the President, indefinitely.
woVK8 TIL that during the carnian age (232 million years ago) it rained for 1-2 million years straight almost everywhere according to scientists