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TIL that Barrier Reef is the world's largest coral reef system

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VMBjm TIL the FDA will not allow Nabisco to use the word “cream” to describe the stuffing in Oreos. It’s called “creme” because it contains zero dairy.
4KZX TIL dictator Robert Mugabe tried to stop a critic of Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation by levying ridiculous taxes on his newspaper; the writer retaliated with advertisements printed on trillion-dollar-bills, which was cheaper than actual paper.
7r9ZZ TIL The word cartoon dates back to the middle ages with the meaning back then being a first draft of stain glass or a tapestry.
Lj6Z TIL: An artist accidentally used £20,000 worth of rare comics to create a papier-mache sculpture for an art exhibition.
yQ94e TIL that pork is a "red meat" for nutritional studies (which tie red meat consumption to heart disease and cancer), and the "other white meat" phrase was just a marketing campaign by the pork industry.