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TIL 66% of Cleveland residents are functionally illiterate

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awg8M TIL Bread in the US contains Potassium Bromate, a toxic chemical that is linked to Cancer. This chemical has been banned in most countries around the world, but the FDA refuses to investigate because they have "limited availability of resources and other agency priorities".
WDkN TIL Before 9/11, there were only 16 people on the USA’s ‘NO Fly List’, today there are 99,427.
NvOb TIL that there were so many sea turtles in the Caribbean Sea when Christopher Columbus arrived that his crew was kept awake at night by the sound of the turtles banging against the hulls of the ships.
YZMr TIL there is a popular legend that President Howard Taft created baseball’s 7th-inning stretch. When watching a game, the overweight Taft would get sore and stand, and the rest of those in attendance would join him out of respect.
VBk5D TIL the most commonly used name for a character in a movie is "Jack"