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TIL Trix removed artificial coloring from it's cereal but reversed course because people complained

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9YaP6 TIL Atlantropa was a gigantic engineering colonisation idea devised by the German architect Herman Sörgel in the 1920s. The project was devised to contain several hydroelectric dams in key points of the Mediterranean Sea to cause a sea level drop and create new land to settle.
p8D9O TIL the American Public Power Association has a ‘Squirrel Index’ data tracker to track squirrel attacks on electrical power systems. They found that the two peak periods of highest squirrel activity are May-June and October-November.
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