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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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ANwK7 TIL the planet Mercury has a comet-like tail 15-million miles (24 million kms) long. The tail is made of sodium atoms blasted off of the surface of the planet by the Sun and small meteorite impacts. The tail is very faint, invisible to the naked eye.
lKbK TIL Lark Voorhies (Lisa Turtle from Saved by the Bell) wrote a book rife with grammatical errors and insane ramblings called “True Light”. The first paragraph alone has over 70 commas.
16rV4 TIL in 2008, a panda at a zoo in southern China attacked a man who wanted a cuddle. “Yangyang was so cute and I just wanted to cuddle him,” Liu was quoted as saying from his hospital bed.
eb0D TIL Sally Ride, the first American woman in space, was gay, as well as NASA’s first LGBT+ astronaut (that we know of).
MeQ48 TIL that the treadmill originated in prisons. It was meant as a punishment, a source of electricity, and to keep prisoners active.