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oROwA TIL Carbohydrates are glucose supplements, not an essential nutrient. Our body can produce almost all the glucose we need from fats through gluconeogenesis.
gMK19 TIL that the Boids algorithm, an artificial life simulator, can be used to predict flocking behavior in birds based on three primary rules of separation, alignment, and cohesion.
a8DaN TIL Edith Piaf's team and peers originally deemed "La Vie en Rose" weaker than other songs she was working in, and she set it aside for a year before changing her mind and deciding to record it, and then it became the song that made her internationally famous.
8eroV TIL of Hitobashira, the cultural practice of burying people alive under buildings before construction
5VvNB TIL Daisy, well known for their "Red Ryder" BB gun from "A Christmas Story", was originally a windmill company. Their BB guns were promotional items for their windmills, which eventually became so popular that they ditched windmills altogether.