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TIL despite having zero calories, artificial sweeteners do not assist in weight loss, but might cause weight gain and heart disease.

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d8oYQ TIL That if you combined all of the area of the Nordic countries together, nearly 2/3 of it would just be Greenland. If Greenland became it's own country (it's currently a territory of Denmak), it would be the least densely populated country on the planet.
akZL TIL that North Korea is the World’s only Necrocracy -the supreme leader, Kim Il Sung, still rules, and he’s dead…
X0PQP Today I learned that epigenetics can be used to predict sex across mammals at close to 100% accuracy. A notable exception are marmosets, and methods that work on other mammals can only predict marmoset sex accurately 66% of the time.
GNr1 TIL today is “National Sorry Day” in Australia, a day of being sorry to the aboriginal population for mistreatment during the 20th century
pMZO TIL the first known illegal act on the internet was committed in 1973 by one of the first ARPANET engineers. He sent a request for return of his electric razor following a conference in England. At that time, personal use of the internet was unlawful.