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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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ANbLw TIL of Luigi Galvani, an 18th-century Italian scientist, discovered "animal electricity" when he observed frog legs twitching in response to metal probes.
a8BJL TIL that European Starlings can mimic human speech
Moy0 TIL Rosa Parks sued Outkast in a case that ended up going to the Supreme Court
pYdG4 TIL Australia has a public collection programme for funnel-web spiders. The public are asked to catch the deadliest spider in the world (capable of killing a child in 15 minutes, and has fangs that can pierce toenails) and take them to designated points. They are milked for the anti-venom programme.
YpBZ7 TIL the CIA offered funding to artists Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and de Kooning so that their abstract work would show how free artists were in the United States compared to the rigid work of the Soviet Union.