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TIL Jif natural peanut butter has to be labeled as “peanut butter spread” because it doesn’t meet the FDA requirements for peanut content–its “non-peanut ingredients” exceed 10 percent.

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1apdd TIL 'Weird Al' Yankovic recorded a parody of Lady Gaga's "Born This Way," entitled "Perform This Way," and all of the proceeds from the parody and its music video were donated to the Human Rights Campaign, to support the human rights themes of the original song.
rRlpd TIL that two-time Medal of Honor recipient Major General Smedley Butler recommended in his 1935 book 'War is a Racket' that industries should be conscripted before soldiers to limit war profiteering after his experiences in the Banana Wars and WWI.
grLO7 TIL in Leave the World Behind (2023), a coordinated attack of 1) disabling communications and transportation, 2) synchronized chaos via disinformation, and 3) civil war and societal collapse was the most cost effective way of destabilizing a dysfunctional society.
kJdM7 TIL that there's an Egyptian Hieroglyph unicode bock! And it has many interesting characters! 𓂺
P1Qmn TIL the 2011 Joplin, Missouri EF5 tornado caused numerous fatal fungal infections in people injured by debris.