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TIL planned obsolescence is illegal in France; it is a crime to intentionally shorten the lifespan of a product with the aim of making customers replace it. In early 2018, French authorities used this law to investigate reports that Apple deliberately slowed down older iPhones via software updates.

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OokLR TIL - Mountain Dew is banned in over 100 countries for using a dangerous chemical called BVO. It was also created to be a mixer for moonshine. (Had to remake cause I couldnt spell or edit).
WkQBN TIL That the reason beans actually give you gas is because of a sugar found in beans called oligosaccharide that the body cannot fully break down. When these sugars move into the small intestine, they produce excess gas.
xPVg TIL Sting receives approx $2000 per day from royalties for the song ‘Every Breath You Take’ and also 100% of the royalties from the P-Diddy remix 'I’ll Be Missing You’
e09mJ TIL that the photons that light up the earth are not 8 min. 20 sec old but thousands of years old trapped inside the Sun and recently freed.
E11MX TIL that human fingers/toes getting wrinkly when in the bath/swimming is a actually NOT caused by water soaking into the skin. This effect does not happen if there is nerve damage in the finger, which means it is actually an involuntary autonomic nervous system response causing wrinkly fingers.