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TIL that a beer company developed edible six-pack rings that marine life or humans can eat

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8aloV TIL: Food Allergies are now 2-3 times higher compared to 1997. We have also seen diagnosed anaphylactic (life threatening) food reactions rise 377 percent from 2007 to 2016. As of 2011, one out of thirteen kids have a food allergy. To this day, scientists are still dumbfounded over this epidemic.
nWWZB TIL that many food products readily sold for consumption in the US are illegal and banned in Europe because they contain dangerous substances, like arsenic and growth hormones, that cause cancer and birth defects.
e05dJ TIL the stories of Aladdin, Ali Baba, and Sinbad were not in the original 1001 Arabian Nights, but are believed to have been added by the French explorer Antoine Galland, who heard them from various sources in Europe and implemented the stories into new translations of the Nights.
lonn1 TIL in Louisiana and Oregon, a jury can convict a murder suspect with just a 10-2 vote. In Louisiana, this law came from Jim Crow. In Oregon, it's from anti-Semitism in the 30s.
RPaw TIL Jimmy Carter said if he became president, he would release all government UFO information to the public. Once elected, he decided not to due to “national security concerns.”