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TIL Agave Nectar, touted as a somewhat healthier alternative to cane sugar, actually contains more Fructose than HFCS and is extremely unhealthy.

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gMlGW TIL that a group of striking coal workers in West Virginia had leftover WWI chemical bombs dropped on them by the US government during the 1921 Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest labor uprising in American history.
ne5Rb TIL of Igor Panarin who predicted the US would collapse in 2010 into 4 zones controlled by Canada, China, the EU and Mexico.
OoGOX The sky appears blue for a combination of two reasons. Before white light reaches the Earth's surface, the light waves collide with and bounce off of the nitrogen and oxygen atoms in the atmosphere. Different frequencies of light (in other words different colours) are scattered differently. Higher frequencies (blue and purple) are more easily scattered and thus bounce around in all different directions more than lower frequencies (red or orange) do. The scattering of high frequencies alone would cause the sky to appear blue and purple, but our eyes work better at frequencies near the middle of the spectrum (yellow and green). Since the colour blue is closer to yellow or green than purple is, the sky we see appears blue.
dBDK TIL that Norway is considering moving it’s border 40 meters to give Finland a mountain as its 100th birthday present, the peak would also become Finland’s highest point.
779p TIL more than half (56.3%) of Vermont citizens consider themselves atheist.