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TIL 'Organic' food in the EU does not mean 'no pesticides.' It means up to 28 pesticides allowed.

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pBLG TIL that many films/TV shows, including Gremlins, Desperate Housewives, The Munsters, Beethoven, Deep Impact, and Buffy The Vampire Slayer, as well as music videos by The Offspring and P. Diddy, were all filmed at the same backlot street set at Universal Studios Hollywood, using the same houses.
VMNgZ TIL that a "frown" isn't a upside-down smile like cartoons and symbols suggest, but rather it's more of an angry face
pXZQ TIL that a doctor in the Bronx was fired at the height of the 2015 Legionnaires outbreak for testing the water in patients’ homes.
wJxE TIL that Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar is the only film in the top 10 worldwide box office this year that is wholly original (not a reboot, remake, sequel, or part of a franchise)
O4pR TIL Sarah M. Pratt, wife of Orson Pratt who was an original apostle in the Mormon Church, claimed that Joseph Smith’s polygamous marriages never produced offspring because Smith had his doctor, John. C Bennett, practice abortion “on a large scale” during their time in Nauvoo, Illinois.