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Oreo cookies are linked to a high-stakes case of corporate espionage valued in the billions. 🍪

The additive in Oreo's cream filling is titanium dioxide (TiO2) - a white pigment used in countless products from paint to plastics. In the early 2000s, a Chinese businessman was convicted of economic espionage for trying to steal DuPont's valuable trade secrets about their top-quality "titanium white" manufacturing process.

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