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TIL Diet soft drinks have significantly more caffeine than their regular versions. Diet Coke for example, has 30% more caffeine that regular Coke.

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gMX09 TIL A man created a fake restaurant on TripAdvisor and asked around for good reviews. Eventually, the fake restaurant was the #1 restaurant in London, and was being called up 100s of times daily for bookings. For a day, the man set up a “cafe” in his backyard and served frozen food to rave reviews.
wowMP TIL that chocolate has 6 different solid phases (structural states), each with different melting points, and must be "tempered" to get it to solidify uniformly into phase V, which is considered the most pleasant form in terms of food qualities, although not the most stable at room temperature.
nWoW TIL that, when the US was founded, the government could, and often did, unilaterally shut down corporations if they exceeded their authority or caused public harm.
ZmRG TIL that people who score high on ‘openness’ in psychological tests are the most likely to feel chills when they listen to music.
W7wV4 [TIL] Sack of Mecca is when the city of Mecca was raided during the Hajj by a claimant to the title Mahdi (Messiah like individual)