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TIL the EU is working on a "Digital Product Passport" so consumers can track where a product comes from, what it's made from, how to repair it and how to dispose of it. This includes clothing, chemicals and electronics.

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EgoPx TIL Karl Kruszelnicki's mother managed to escape Auschwitz during a shortage of Zyklon B.
mOlv TIL McDonald’s is no longer the global leader in fast food chains. It’s Subway.
BryZL TIL that Ben Stiller came up with the idea for "Tropic Thunder" while working on the set of Steven Spielberg's WW2 drama "Empire of the Sun" and seeing actors come back from "fake" Army boot camp and treating it like a real war experience.
d8WB7 TIL that Boston Corbett, the Union army solider who fatally shot John Wilkes Booth, later went insane and was incarcerated in a mental asylum (Topeka Asylum for the Insane) in 1887. He escaped from the facility a year later and was never seen again.