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TIL Cheddar Cheese is artificially dyed orange

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xwmw TIL in 1987 Jamie Lee Curtis invented and patented a diaper modification, a moisture proof pocket containing wipes for easy access. She refused to allow it to be marketed until companies started selling biodegradable diapers, the patent expired in 2007 and is now in the public domain.
x6Vj1 TIL Reyn Guyer is a game designer whose first hit was Twister. In 1969, he invented "the world's first indoor ball". It was made of polyurethane and named after the foam used by off-roaders to cover their roll-bars: Nerf.
bwG7 TIL that the highest paid athlete of all time was a Roman Charioteer. If he had lived today he would have been worth $15 billion.
7wNP TIL: Papers funded by the sugar industry are five times less likely to find a connection between sugar and obiesty.
QmyE TIL many Japanese still use clam-shell flip-phones, which “are called Galápagos phones because they evolved perfectly for an isolated environment.” The flip-phones are advanced enough & come with features locked into a Japan-only ecosystem that many customers are slow to adopt smartphones.