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TIL The last letter to be added to our alphabet was “J.”
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TIL corgis are bred short so that they can nip at the heels of cows and sheep while herding and not get kicked in the head in the process.
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TIL the first ingredients listed on a package of goldfish are “Smiles”
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TIL: In the United States, you can sell dietary supplements with no safety or efficacy testing at all if you don't "make specific medical claims" or use a known poison as an active ingredient. The FDA can only remove a product from market after "substantial" deaths or injury occur.
R5aya
TIL that the creator of Vaseline, Robert Chesebrough, claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it every day.
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TIL about Ina Benita, "the first Polish femme fatale", an interwar movie star that was believed dead after the Warsaw Uprising, but completely anonymously lived in the US until 1984. Her grandson only discovered this 30 years after her death. (translation from DE wiki due to depth)