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TIL France has become the first nation in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away or destroying unsold food, forcing them instead to donate it to charities and food banks.

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AyxB TIL researchers from Yale introduced the concept of money to Chimpanzees and soon after, they began paying for sex.
PY6NZ TIL Artificial Banana Flavored Food tastes more like what bananas used to taste like and bananas today don't taste as they should
bk9 TIL a Greek newspaper was accidentally printed inside-out in its first issue, and they continued the tradition for over 100 years
wLJpM TIL of Sidney Lewis, the youngest person to ever serve in the British Army. He lied about his age, and enlisted in the Army at 12 years old in 1915, and would go on to fight for several weeks in the trenches at the Battle of Somme before his mother discovered and requested he be discharged.
axpJ TIL that in 1990, Chuck Berry was sued by 59 women because - at his Missouri restaurant, “The Southern Air” - he had had hidden cameras installed in the ladies’ room. Even though one female was a minor, he managed to avoid sexual abuse charges, and paid out a settlement of $1.2million.