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TIL the allowable FDA limits of maggots, larvae, insect parts, rodent hairs, excrement, and other “filth” in food items

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9YbJr TIL about the Pokémon Snap Station at Blockbuster, where you could play through the first level and print the pictures you took.
9YBwp TIL that the Woodingdean Water Well is the world's deepest hand-dug well, reaching an astonishing 390 metres (1,285 feet) and took four years to finish -- between 1858 to 1862.
b7Dp TIL Edgar Allen Poe wrote a story about a boy named Richard Parker being cannibalized on a ship. Decades later, a boy by that same name was eaten by his crew mates when they became stranded at sea.
BrMek TIL Winston Churchill was nearly killed in a car accident in NY in 1931 after trying to cross the street and look at the wrong side of the road forgetting he was in the US and not in the UK where driving directions are reversed.
GYXg1 TIL that the Pearl Harbor memorial development had slowed to a halt, only for Elvis to jump in and contribute 50,000 dollars through his "Aloha from Hawaii" benefit concert.