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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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OGMy7 TIL NYC Photographer Jamie Livingston shot a Polaroid photo everyday for 6,000 days between March 1979 and October 1997. The first shot was of his girlfriend at the time and his last photo was on his deathbed, dying of cancer
BrrkW "They bite and scratch. You can't handle them without gloves and nets."
1v0W TIL Pan Am used to weigh its flight attendants every month and if they were too heavy they were suspended without pay until they lost a few pounds
NXQV1 TIL in 2018 the first documented instance of interspecies adoption between animals that strongly compete for resources in the wild was recorded when a lioness was observed to have adopted a baby leopard as one of her own.
b9vX0 TIL Philadelphia Police bombed a Pro-Black movement in 1985, killing 11 people, including 5 children. The only person to go to jail, was the only survivor.