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TIL that in 2016, France legislated a Food Waste Law that bans supermarkets from wasting unsold food. It mandates that supermarkets must compost their leftover produce, or donate the goods to charity.

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LMZp TIL that theoretically, it would take 4 light years of worth of lead to stop a neutrino.
y45V TIL Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side, All About Steve) is the only woman to receive an Oscar and a Razzie (for Worst Actress) in the same year. Being a good sport, she collected her Razzie in person and won her Oscar the following night.
D1lvg TIL: Tomatoes are self-pollinating, meaning insects or wind aren't required. Instead they have flowers that contain both the male and female parts, so more than one plant is not needed for reproduction. The pollen falls within the flower to pollinate itself.
JYJ6l TIL that Korean-American Andrew Lee from California was inaugurated as Crown Prince in early 2018 by King Yi Seok, the nominal emperor of the Joseon Dynasty. He is the successor to the throne of his ancestor King Sejong, who created the Korean alphabet, Hangul.
7ryMp TIL the idiom "a few bad apples" is actually "a few bad apples spoil the whole barrel" and refers to the fact that even if the majority of a group of people are 'good', if there are a few 'bad' or 'corrupt' people in the group, it invalidates everything else.