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TIL that Pantone maintains the USDA color standards for french fries. French fry color standards can be used to program deep fryers.

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9KbM TIL the prune industry asked the FDA to relabel prunes as “dried plums” because “prunes” weren’t selling. It worked.
a8WoZ TIL that Joe Montana, Ronnie Lott and other members of the San Francisco 49ers are singing the backup vocals on the Huey Lewis and the News hit song “Hip To Be Square” from 1986
woKlP TIL that Emery is the third form of Corundum, after Sapphire and Ruby, is what Emery Boards are made of, and has been mined in Greece since antiquity.
OGM6 TIL that there is an island in France which has a population of 44, but gets almost 10,000 visitors a day.
wLoMP TIL there is something called the North Country Trail, which starts in upstate New York and ends in North Dakota and is 4,600 miles long