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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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GYj1g TIL that the first person executed by guillotine was a French highwayman named Nicolas Pelletier in 1792. This was done because decapitation was the only legal method of capital punishment and the executioner preferred not to use a sword as it reminded him of the former privileges of the nobility.
b0G0 TIL that on September 11th, 2001, Officer John Perry of the NYPD went to headquarters to file retirement paperwork. When he heard the explosion at the world trade center he immediately responded and was later killed when one of the towers collapsed. He was the only off-duty officer killed on 9/11.
LkgV TIL a counter-terrorism expert in the FBI continuously warned of an impending Al-Qaeda terrorist attack 5-6 years prior to 9/11. He was pushed out of the FBI in 2001 and took a job as security head in August..at the WTC where he died when the towers fell.
78QKP TIL that Bull Island a 15KM^2 landmass in Dublin bay is an accidental man made island. Which began forming after two large sea walls were built in the 18th/19th century.
VbWG TIL During the filming of “Groundhog Day”, Harold Ramis and Bill Murray’s longtime collaboration and friendship ended abruptly, without public explanation. Except for a few words at a wake, and later at a bar mitzvah, the two men did not speak for almost 20 years.