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TIL sugar can twist light, and has been used in calibrating instruments that detect the rotation of light.

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W0QL TIL that if you earn more than $25,000 annually, you’re in the top 10% of the world’s income earners. If you earn more than $50,000 a year, you’re in the top 1% of the world’s income earners.
woNr1 TIL that all the gold ever mined could fit into just 3.5 olympic swimming pools
p7QA TIL that Kim Jong-Il’s birth name is Yuri Irsenovich
rRwMo TIL that Alexander the Great may have been buried alive (accidentally) up to six days before his death, after succumbing to Guillain-Barré Syndrome. This would have left him unable to speak or move, and his breath so shallow that he was pronounced dead.
jNWap TIL Despite smoking marijuana, using large amounts of cocaine, drinking to excess & being a heavy cigarette smoker, actor Steve McQueen followed a daily two-hour exercise regimen involving weightlifting and, at one point, running 5 miles, seven days a week and learned martial arts.