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TIL that if not for food coloring, Cheetos would be gray.

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J19l1 TIL that after fighting off a shark while rowing solo across the Atlantic, adventurer John Fairfax wasn’t believed—so he killed another shark and dropped it off at the reporter’s office to prove his story.
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