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TIL there are medical professionals pushing to make sugar a controlled substance. Among other things, they would like to see the FDA remove the "generally regarded as safe" classification of sugar.

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lQYB TIL that Alzheimer’s disease is considered by some scientists to be Type 3 diabetes because it results from resistance to insulin in the brain.
8ag8V TIL of the mbira, a musical instrument of the Zimbabwean Shona people that's like a mini handheld piano/xylophone
VMxDk TIL that in 1872, politician Boss Tweed fled to Spain to escape being convicted on fraud charges. However, he was deported and sent back to the US after Spanish authorities saw a political cartoon of him and mistaked him for a child abductor.
9Knm TIL the “cheerleader effect”, the theory that girls look more attractive in groups, is scientifically proven
YYmr TIL Margaret Ann Neve is history’s first recorded supercentarian, having lived in the 18th, 19th and 20th century.