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TIL kraft singles (processed cheese) cannot be advertised as cheese because US FDA standards states a food can only be identified as a cheese if it contains ‘at least 51% real cheese’

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awedM TIL narwhals and beluga whales can mate to produce a hybrid called the Narluga
MewJm TIL that the secondary rainbow's colors are reversed.
xZWb TIL a woman in Phoenix, AZ sued her doctors for child support because they failed to discover her pregnancy in time for her to have it terminated. The jury unanimously rejected the lawsuit after 25 minutes of deliberation.
OoRme TIL The last individual of a species is called an "Endling" - when it dies, the species is extinct.
WkXjd TIL that hundreds of US agents during the cold war were caught due to their fake soviet passports. It was later discovered that the staples used in these forged passports were stainless-steel, unlike the soviet ones which corroded very easily.