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TIL Tic Tacs are actually 95% sugar but they state that they are 0% sugar because their serving size is less than 0.5g according to FDA labeling rules

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aw0Go TIL when Apollo 11 landed, it had only about 25 seconds of fuel left.
8LxP TIL The etymology of the worlds most recognizable word, “okay / OK”, comes from a fad in the 1830s where people purposely misspelt “all correct” as “oll korrect”.
Wkyno TIL: A single serving of cooking spray is considered to be so small that it can be called “fat free”. That implies that an entire can filled with nothing but oil has no calories.
rnPW TIL that “inner speech” (the voice you hear inside your head when you’re reading or thinking) is accompanied by tiny muscular movements in the larynx.
KObDG TIL The previously unknown glymphatic system was first described in 2012. Previously, scientists did not fully understand how the brain, which maintains its own closed ecosystem, removed waste. During sleep, a system of plumbing pumps cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) through the brain to wash away waste