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TIL that a 1996 federal law allows restaurants to donate leftover food without getting sued, and that nobody has ever filed a lawsuit against a restaurant over donated leftovers

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j6P8Q TIL there is bacteria that grows in the wet soil of Australia’s Northern Territory that in one case infected someone but lay dormant for 62 years before activating! Known as ‘Darwin’s Disease” it enters the body through cuts or inhalation and is fatal.
JY4Jv TIL About the UNIVAC which was the world's first commercially available computer. It weighed 16000 pounds, used 5000 vacuum tubes, and could perform about 1000 calculations per second.
7rNpr TIL the Harlem Globetrotters visited Pope John Paul II at the Vatican in November 2000 and named the Pontiff an Honorary Harlem Globetrotter.
WKvB TIL: Banana flavored candy tastes that way because that’s how bananas tasted until the 1960s, when a fungus wiped out that strain of bananas. Today another fungus threatens the strain of bananas we eat.
X0krQ TIL that in 2005, identity thief Behzad Mofrad plead guilty on charges related to applying for a passport under the name "Kevin Andrew Collins." Kevin was one of the first missing children whose images were ever disseminated nationally on milk cartons. Mofrad assumed his case had been forgotten.