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TIL that food companies learned from the 1990 Perrier Water debacle how not to do a recall after discovering product contamination.

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X04N8 TIL There is an annual festival held in the state of Washington centered around D.B. Cooper and his successful hijaking
X9KQ TIL that a “white elephant gift exchange” takes its name from the legend of the King of Siam gifting rare albino elephants to those who displeased him because the upkeep costs would financially ruin them.
6ELEY TIL that in 1720 a ship full of precious goods and sick people arrived in Marseille/France. In spite of clear signs, greedy merchands put pressure an the authorities to shorten the quarantine and not to burn the freight. More than 100.000 people died because of pestilence in the next two years.
d8PrE TIL that Bill Gates was ever accused of being a member of Chinese Communist Party. Misinformation kills.
Bg8wr TIL countries such as Brazil, Chile, China, Japan and South Korea use different types of tally marks to ours (US, UK, Australia, etc).