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TIL that the average chocolate bar contains 30 insect fragments due to unavoidable contamination — in the US, the FDA sets limits to the numbers allowed per food item (in chocolate, max. 60 insect fragments and 1 rodent hair per 100g)

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8aVnL TIL light doesn't always travel at the speed of light and has been recorded as slow as 38 m.p.h. (17 meters per second)
6EZE8 TIL that less than half the claims made on The Dr. Oz Show were backed by "some" evidence, and that fell to a third when the threshold was raised to "believable" evidence.
OGyZL TIL that about 100,000 people died each year in India due to the collapse of vulture populations. Vultures were crucial to the ecosystem & their near extinction due to accidental poisoning extended the presence of animal carcasses in the local environment, increasing rabies & reducing water quality.
bQVZ TIL only two groups of people in Sparta could have their names inscribed on their tombstones: women who died in childbirth and men who fell in combat.
bml7 TIL that on April Fool’s Day, 1976, the BBC convinced many listeners that a special alignment of the planets would temporarily decrease gravity on Earth. Phone lines were flooded with callers who claimed they felt the effects.