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TIL 'Evaporated Cane Juice' commonly found listed on some organic food labels is really just sugar in disguise.

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Rml6 TIL that should modern civilization collapse, there would not be enough easily accessible fossil fuels for any future society to achieve an industrial revolution.
R0d1 TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger was originally cast to play Kyle Reese in the original Terminator, but after reading the script asked James Cameron to play the role of the machine, telling Cameron “trust me”
5Vd6B TIL Siemens, the unit of conductance, has an old equivalent called "mho". A reverse of ohmΩ, a unit of resistance, with inverted omega ℧.
ep4DL TIL about early ‘competitive eater’ and local Kent celebrity Nicholas Wood, whose stunts were reported in 1630 to include eating a whole sheep raw in one sitting (including the wool, horns, and bones), 7 dozen rabbits in one meal, and 400 pigeons in another
GYJr5 TIL that detainees of Guantanamo Bay have access to Video Games