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TIL That Israel made a reform requiring food companies to mark high sugar and fat percentages on the package with red stickers

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OoYK6 TIL of Anders Haugen, the only American to ever medal in ski jumping. He finished 4th in the 1924 olympics, but when a historian reviewed the results 50 years later he found a scoring error. Shortly thereafter, Anders went to Norway at 86 years old and was awarded his long overdue bronze medal.
ADKdd TIL that from time syphilis first emerged, in the 1500s, countries blamed neighboring and sometimes enemy countries for the outbreak; Italy, Germany & the UK called it ‘the French disease’, the French named it ‘the Neapolitan disease’, and there are numerous other instance (Listed here, paragraph 3)
QZN9 TIL that on almost all of his albums, Lenny Kravitz not only sang his songs, but did everything else: played the guitar, bass, drums, percussions and produced them all himself.
QY0p TIL That until 2007, NFL defenses could be flagged for excessive home crowd noise. Here is John Elway in 1990 demanding Chiefs fans quiet down:
a8M9o TIL of the Republic of Chad, which is the fifth-largest country in Africa and the twentieth largest nation by area in the world.