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TIL Packages of bacon include a window on the back to see the fat courtesy of the USDA

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7lkM TIL that in 2002, a Chinese publisher released an unauthorized sequel to the Harry Potter series, consisting of the text of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, but with most names changed to those of Harry Potter characters
DQaXg TIL China, virtually closed to Americans for over a decade, opened its doors to a Danish author from National Geographic for a lengthy tour conducted by communist officials in 1964
LQ5w0 TIL that in 2009 the 90s video game composer and host of Video Games Live, Tommy Tallarico, once got caught smuggling over $100,000 into the USA
4k4KN TIL that the first vacuum cleaners were horse drawn
0wyQN TIL that scientists from the World Meteorological Organization developed six lists of twenty-one (21) names for tropical storms and hurricanes that rotate each year. Each letter of the alphabet has a name for a storm except Q, U, X, Y, and Z. Right now, we are on letter C, Cristobal.