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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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rGQx TIL The Winner of the Nobel Prize for discovering the wave-like nature of the electron is the son of the Winner for Nobel Prize for discovering the particle-like nature of the electron
DJ TIL In 1974, biggest drink McDonald’s offered was 21 oz. Today, that’s roughly the size of a “small” drink at Burger King.
kDYW TIL the band “Twenty One Pilots” got their name from the book “All My Sons” by Arthur Miller. In the book, a man sends out faulty airplane parts and causes the death of 21 pilots in World War II
m18vY TIL that, in 1996, workers at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station found and subsequently decontaminated four orphaned, mildly-radioactive kittens.
JYY8k TIL that British Airways' only fatal accident was a mid-air collision caused by air traffic control error. The controller saw the problem and alerted one plane to stop climbing but this attempt to avert catastrophe turned what would have been a near miss into the collision he was trying to prevent