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TIL Cheddar cheese is orange because they add color from the annatto fruit

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Gwy7 TIL that the US is the only nation that prints all its currency in the same size and color, and that a court has ruled that this must change with the next currency redesign.
VBWAQ TIL Franki Valli and the Four Seasons tried to cover the Dylan hit "Don't Think Twice." Valli didn't like the way it sounded so he recorded a version in a "joke" falsetto and they released it under another name. It reached #12 on the billboard 100.
x6N95 TIL that up to the early 20th century, young boys in the Western world wore dresses. The first time they were allowed to put on trousers was considered a rite of passage.
DQmDV TIL of Atsumi Yoshikubo, a Japanese tourist who vanished while solo hiking in Canada's Yellowknife region. Despite her personal and professional achievements, Atsumi was a deeply troubled woman who apparently wandered off into the Canadian wilderness with no intention of being found. She was.
xV6lB TIL that on this day (11/13) in 1947, the Soviet Union completed development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.