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TIL that Busta Rhymes’s 1997 song “Dangerous” is based on a 1980’s Poison Control Center PSA commercial.

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O8Z1 TIL that US forces in Afghanistan dropped small, yellow cluster bombs which (if they didn’t detonate on impact) were easily mistaken for the small, yellow food rations they also dropped.
5VwKQ TIL that humans are the only species prone to heart attacks
wo61P TIL The St. Gallen bratwurst, made from veal, pork, and milk, is IGP-protected. Virtually unchanged since 1438, it is mainly eaten as street food, traditionally without mustard, served with bread.
0wAQL TIL that in 1946 John Boyd Orr, a Scottish scientist, proposed the creation of a World Food Board to repel world hunger and protect global peace. The proposal was rejected as UK and USA refused to support it. As he resigned from his role in the UN, he warned that “food is more than a commodity."
9wORp TIL Adolf Hitler was such a big fan of Disney that his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels gifted him 18 Mickey Mouse shorts for Christmas 1937. Also Roy Disney sold Hitler a copy of Snow White, which he considered one of the greatest movies ever made, though never shown to the German public.