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TIL Tic tacs are almost pure sugar but due to their weight are allowed to be labeled as zero sugar per serving.

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rYoe TIL Robert E. Lee originally opposed the Confederacy, writing in an early letter, “I can anticipate no greater calamity for the country than a dissolution of the Union.” Even his wife heavily favored the Union.
e0QX6 TIL alcohol based hand sanitizers can cause severe intoxication in small children when absorbed through the skin.
168nD TIL the Evil Queen from Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937) has a name: Grimhilde.
ymWV TIL The reason pirates wore eye-patches was so that one eye was always used to the dark, making it easier to see quickly when going below deck.
E1b8p TIL: The Mexican Constitution is the first such document in the world to set out social rights, serving as a model for the Weimar Constitution of 1919 and the Soviet Constitution of 1918.