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TIL Bryers Ice Cream, the company that prided itself on using only few, all natural ingredients had to change their labels to read “Frozen Dairy Dessert” because based on the ingredients they couldn’t legally sell their product as ice cream.

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mg5Y TIL Daniel Inouye was an American soldier in WWII who got shot in the stomach while engaging 3 machine gun nests, then had his right hand blown off from a rifle grenade, and finally proceeded to pry out the grenade from his amputated hand and throw it in the nest.
1kx7 TIL economic models suggest a policy of completely open borders worldwide would increase world GDP by between 50 and 150 percent
XZ7k TIL a species of tiger moths effectively jams bats’ echolocation by producing up to 4,500 clicks per second. This jamming is the most effective prey defense against bats ever documented, reducing their success rate tenfold.
VMjem TIL That Germany has a Dementia Project which has fake bus stops designed to keep Alzheimer’s patients from wandering off
BgGk TIL The Superman Radio Show of the 1940’s Exposed the KKK’s Secrets, Leading to Public Ridicule.