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TIL Doritos can be used as safe firestarter because of how flamable the cheese dust is

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enKD TIL Kevin Carter, who two months after he won a Pulitzer for a photo of a vulture stalking a starving child in the Sudan, killed himself and in his suicide note wrote, “I am haunted by the vivid memories…of starving or wounded children…”
9Y8mp TIL in 2012, a man sued PepsiCo arguing that he had found a dead mouse in his Mt. Dew. Thus, PepsiCo had to prove and found that a mouse would "have dissolved into a "jelly-like" substance after 30 days"
o0J7 TIL that until 2015 a French law prohibited bakers in Paris from taking vacations at the same time, to avoid a bread shortage like the one that helped cause the French Revolution. Bakers met to decide who would be open in July and who would be open in August.
a0d0 TIL that the 2012 Olympics had the biggest military buildup in London Since World War II.
dmoQ TIL 800 different languages are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city on Earth.