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TIL that women using birth control pills blinked 32% more often than those not using the contraception.

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kOO7e TIL advice given to avoid alcohol while taking antibiotics was for moral reasons, not pharmacological.
e0N7J TIL when Elton John proposed marriage to sound technician Renate Blauel who was a member of his entourage on a 1983 Australian concert tour, she accepted and the engagement was announced the following day. The wedding took place three days later
R5Pdj TIL: By Player Efficiency Rating (PER), Nikola Jokic is the greatest NBA player of all-time
7rEAL TIL: There's a Gorilla in Japan who is famous for being so handsome that women go ape over him. Shibani the Gorilla is so ikemen (a really good looking guy) that he was made the official spokesman for the Higashiyama Zoo.
XjYE TIL in 2003, the US sugar industry lobbied congress to block a WHO report which would set guidelines for sugar intake at 10% of daily calories. Congress blocked the report by threatening to cut all WHO funding if it was released, & backed the industry’s sugar intake recommendation of 25% daily.