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TIL the middle name of Nelson from the Simpsons is ‘Mandela’.

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X0Owr TIL that FDA requires prior notification of any foods being imported into the US and its Prior Import List has over 100 different species of edible insects and over 200 food products made from insects
pEp4 TIL that townfolk from a small German town duped over 200 neo-Nazis by tricking them into a walkathon that raised over $12,000 for an anti-Nazi charity.
X0Q9Q TIL the Australian Tim Tam chocolate biscuit, inspired by Britain’s Penguin biscuit and created by food technologist Ian Norris, was named after “Tim Tam” , the horse that won the 1958 Kentucky Derby when Ross Arnott attended the race and first appeared on supermarket shelves in 1964
G56J TIL the earliest known written mention of Jesus Christ’s existence dates to about 90 years AFTER his death
owlW TIL albino redwood trees are unable to produce chlorophyll, however, they can survive because they are able to fuse their roots with the roots of other redwood trees and live as parasites.