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TIL sugar can be more addictive than both cocaine and heroin.

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Rb76 TIL that Christians were originally called Atheists by the Roman Empire because they didn’t believe in Polytheism.
QNde6 TIL The reason most South and South-East Asian writing symbols are curved and rounded is that they were easier to inscribe into palm-leaves. The oldest surviving documents written in Sanskrit, dated two millennia old, were written on palm leaves.
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j64nR TIL that in 2018, after a tanker truck fire shut down a freeway in Los Angeles, a taco truck opened up on the freeway