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TIL Oregon uses beet juice to de-ice the roads and is illegal to use salt.

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VBoaD TIL that piercings can be rejected by the body
D1y0D Today I learned that In South Korea, some stores package their bananas together in various ripeness stages so you can eat them over several days without them going brown. - They call them "one-a-day" bananas.
PYymn TIL Traudl Junge worked as Adolf Hitler's last private secretary, from 1942 to 1945, typing out his last will and testament the day before his suicide. At 22, she was the youngest of his private secretaries, and years later said she felt guilty for, "liking the greatest criminal ever to have lived."
7rnYx TIL That fuzzy dice hanging on a rear view mirror is a good luck charm with the origins based on WWII pilots keeping gambling trinkets in their air planes.
ZB5B TIL that Richard Montañez, Mexican janitor, who invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos is now the executive vice president of multicultural sales and community activation for PepsiCo’s North American divisions.