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TIL in order to inform shoppers in Mexico about poor nutritional content in prepackaged foods, the law states that packages containing foods with excess levels of calories, sugars, saturated fat, or containing caffeine or sweeteners must be labeled with large octagonal warnings exposing these facts.

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GY5DG TIL about the Oslo Breakfast, a meal that began to be served to Norwegian schoolchildren starting 1932. A typical version included an orange, milk, whole-wheat bread, rye biscuit, cheese, carrot and a spoon of cod-liver oil. It reportedly increased the average height of 14 year olds by 4 inches.
rR8Gw TIL that Disney secretly bought up 10,000 acres of land around DC to build a new theme park. It ultimately never got built because the American history theme would have been too controversial
GAvBj TIL Amazon used to manufacture "dash buttons" where if you press the button (which can be mounted anywhere) the product the button is linked to is automatically ordered
WN9Y TIL: The phrase “The luck of the Irish” is actually meant to be offensive. It’s as if to say: “only by sheer luck, as opposed to brains, could these fools succeed”
Mee9V Roll clouds are a type of arcus clouds are typically associated with thunderstorms. These rarities of nature occur when air temperatures invert and cause the warm air to be on top of the cool air. The wind then changes speed and direction and causes a rolling effect of these cylinder-type clouds.