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TIL Sucralose "splenda" in the gut creates Sucralose-6-acetate which is genotoxic and can break up DNA

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4ky8g TIL Saudi Arabia in the 1960's would physically cut out articles of foreign newspapers that criticized the country and sold then as is, often with holes and missing sections entirely
4kDma TIL the first UPC-marked item ever to be scanned at a retail checkout was a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit chewing gum, purchased at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, at 8:01 a.m. on June 26, 1974.
9YWZG TIL: The Zimbabwean government complained that Chinese made condoms were too small.
PpYL TIL That for 30 years and through most of his acting career John Goodman was a raging alcoholic, saying “If I’d picture in my mind a drink—usually straight out of the ­bottle—I couldn’t not do it.” He’s been sober since 2007.
LkL1P TIL when Joseph Vaillancourt's 2,609,698 km 1963 Plymouth Fury taxi, at the time the highest-mileage car in North America, was hit by a truck, actor Michael Barette personally spent about $20k on restoring the car.