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TIL Saccharin(sweetener in Sweet'n Low) is derived from coal tar

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wED6 TIL that pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
xAWw TIL the Oscar nominated documentary “Liberators” narrated by Denzel Washington, interviewing African American soldiers who liberated Buchenwald concentration camp was pulled by PBS when an investigation showed no African American GI’s played a role in the liberation of Buchenwald.
mx4oM TIL in the 1920s, a strange disease known as encephalitis lethargica spread throughout the world, effecting 5 million people. It killed 1 million, and many of the survivors were left unable to move or speak, but were conscious and aware. No cure was ever found, and it disappeared by 1926.
ePAb TIL a team of Material Scientists at the University of Texas Dallas have developed artificial muscle that is 100X stronger than organic muscle and is constructed out of ordinary fishing line.
4xp5 TIL that President Harry S. Truman commanded an artillery battery in WW1 in the US Army, and under his command, ‘Battery D did not lose a single man in France.’