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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.

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epnlE TIL the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill in April 1989 that would delay the end of PDT in presidential election years until after the election. Never signed into law, Pacific-New was inserted into many west coast Unix systems and they failed to make the conversion to PST on 1992 Oct 25.
Be1b TIL in 2014, South Korean Christians put up a Christmas tree visible from the North Korean Border. North Korea responded by calling it a “tool for psychological warfare” and threatened to bomb it.
yQOZV TIL that originally, the classic banker's lamp had a green shade to lessen one's eyestrain due to early incandescent lights. The green eye visor commonly worn by accountants, telegraphers, and copy editors in the late-19th and mid-20th century were worn for similar reasons.
woo68 TIL that all pet Syrian hamsters are descended from a single brother and sister captured in 1930.
epNAD TIL that it appears that Neanderthals likely passed along genetic traits to some modern human populations for surviving cold weather situations - including muscle mass for generating heat, stocky builds, large noses and sinuses - and that these traits have been naturally selected for.