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TIL “Not labeled for individual sale” means the package does not have the proper nutritional labeling requirements NOT that it is illegal to be sold individually

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Bj9b TIL The word ‘pixel’ is short for 'picture element’.
4Xkn6 TIL: Texas has the highest maternal death rate in the developed world?
p8Yob TIL that trees go through a process similar to hibernation called dormancy, and that is what keeps them alive during the winter.
mxjwE TIL that after Mao Zhedong promised China's steel production would one day surpass England's and America's, many children born in 1958 and 1959 were named 'Chaoying' ('Surpass England') or 'Chaomei' ('Overtake America').
4EZJ TIL in 1982 a Bolivian Drug smuggler’s son was busted in the US. The drug lord sent a letter to Ronald Reagan, proposing that in exchange for his son’s liberty he would pay off Bolivia’s entire foreign debt ($3.8 billion).