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TIL according to the Institute for Food Safety and Health at the Illinois Institute of Technology, "one-third of a product's shelf-life remains after the sell-by date for the consumer to use at home."

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GY7mE TIL of Cannibal Island - a small island in Siberia where the Soviet Union forcibly deported 6,000 citizens. They were abandoned with few supplies and only flour for food. Disease and cannibalism quickly ran rampant and after 13 weeks, 2/3 of the original deportees were dead.
e0BNE TIL the red juice oozing out of your steak is not blood, it's myoglobin, a protein that’s found in muscle tissue
JYjMv TIL that rubber bullets were invented by the British Ministry of Defence for use against rioters in the Troubles in Northern Ireland, first used there in 1970
d8gnj TIL every academic major in the US has a six-digit classification code per the National Center for Education Statistics
YpWLZ TIL that the ineffectiveness of using a screw driver on Ikea and other pre-assemble furniture comes from us using Phillips screw drivers instead of Pozidriv