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TIL that Nestle (and other baby formula manufactures) is responsible for the death of millions of babies in the Third World due to malnutrition.

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YpnVG TIL that the "Keep Calm and Carry On" poster from WW2 Britain was never widely distributed during the war, and only became famous when a bookseller found an original poster in a box of old books in 2000, and commercialized it.
xVVjw TIL that Human Beings Almost Vanished from Earth in 70,000 B.C
grd8W TIL restaurants in China can be fined for serving cucumber without a license
kOMa4 TIL Every Christmas Day an estimated 3.6 million Japanese families treat themselves to KFC in what has become a nationwide tradition
7r04b TIL in 2019 a man dressed in a morph suit scammed an entire village by asking them to pay and he'd reveal his identity later. He would later disappear with their money.