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TIL There's a company that takes your DNA sequence and predicts which wine you would enjoy.

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j6Pnp TIL: The massive, multinational tableware company Oneida started in 1848 as a sex cult that invented the term "free love" and featured, among other things, middle-aged women acting as sexual mentors to adolescent boys and a focus on men withholding their orgasm during intercourse (coitus reservatus)
VMJ8G TIL of a traffic light in United States that is deliberately upside down - In 1920's the Irish community at Tipperary Hill, Syracuse didn't like that the "British" red appeared above the "Irish" green on the light and kept vandalizing it until New York State was convinced to keep it green over red.
gNG4 TIL actress Ann B. Davis, aka “Alice”, the housekeeper on The Brady Bunch, never married, lived her final years as a nun, and was never romantically linked with anyone. Ever.
0wyA1 TIL it actually takes less muscles to frown than it does to smile.
nWLwd TIL 11.6% of Americans have diabetes (2021 statistics). It's estimated that in 2020, almost every third American 65 or older had either diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes.