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TIL the FDA recognizes over 70 different types of cheeses, not including nacho cheese. This means that food producers can call anything “nacho cheese.”

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5O9B TIL Groomsman stand on the left of the bride so that in the event of a kidnapping they could defend the bride with a sword in their right hand.
NvrN TIL In 1959, Volvo invented the 3-point seat belt, then gave free license to all other car manufacturers to use it. [x-post from r/Autos]
69PBZ TIL The longest reverb in the world occurs in the bombproof Inchintown fuel tank built in the late 1930s/early 1940s in Invergordon, Ross-shire, Scotland. It lasts for approximately 112 seconds.
ZpMba TIL that scientists trying to study birds in Australia fitted them with tracking harnesses, and the birds helped each other take the harnesses off.
1aKXP TIL that although most people believe that the distress signal SOS stands for "Save our souls" or "Save our ship", the letters don't actually stand for anything.