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TIL Mountain Dew, Fresca, and other food had been banned in the EU and Japan for containing brominated vegetable oil (BVO) - bromine is also commonly used as a flame retardant. Over consumption has resulted in medical attention needed for memory loss and nerve disorders, amongst other issues.

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7rbgx TIL about Vulcan point, which is an island in a lake in a volcano, in a bigger lake inside another island inside the Pacific Ocean
gMA5b TIL: Hitler and the Nazis were big on environmentalism. The Nazis were the first European nation to establish nature reserves and order the protection of wildlife and passed numerous animal rights law. At times the soldiers were order to plant trees on the battlefield.
9YgbQ TIL that The Nobel Prize committee maintains its funds by investing in securities, real estate, the stock market, bonds, loans etc. As per the will which established the committee it was supposed to invest in "safe securities" but the term was re-interpreted after the two world wars.
OXbL TIL Scientists say human greenhouse gas emissions have canceled the next ice age, and that pre-industrial human modifications of the climate through agriculture, fires and deforestation might have just barely staved it off.
9Bk6 TIL a Vanishing Twin is when a twin dies in utero and is either completely or partially absorbed by their twin. Occasionally the dead fetus will be flattened by their growing twin into a parchment like state known as Fetus Papyraceus