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TIL eggs do not need to be refrigerated unless they come from US or Canadian stores

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NX0OE TIL People who work with cockroaches often develop an allergic reaction to the insects and at the same time develop an allergic reaction to pre-ground coffee from the insects which also get ground with the beans at the factory.
8eNpP TIL that respected mathematician Ronald Graham was featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not for also being an accomplished trampolinist and juggler.
4XGAb TIL only 3.5% of the world population lives in a country they weren't born in.
dXXK TIL Disney hired kodak to make the pavement in their parks a certain hue of pink, to make their grass look greener (by wearing out the red receptors in your eyes).
4Xm05 TIL of Jackie Coogan, a child actor in the silent film era who earned millions of dollars, only to find out in his 20s that his parents spent it all on jewelry and cars. He sued and the litigation resulted in the passage of the Coogan Act, which protects child actors