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TIL That Torula Yeast, an ingredient in many foods including Planters Dry Roasted Peanuts, is a product created by wood pulp production.

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9Yw8M TIL that a “moment” is technically 90 seconds long.
l7EK5 TIL that Alaska and Hawaii have the same record high temperature (last paragraph of article)
y1B8 TIL when Napoleon’s Marshall; Michel Ney was being sentenced to execution after Waterloo, Ney’s lawyer in his defense argued that Ney was now a Prussian and could not be tried by French laws, Ney interrupted him saying, “I am French and I will remain French”. Ney was later executed
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