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

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Ayyo TIL Plato was originally called Aristocles, later acquiring the nickname Plato (meaning “broad”) because of his muscular physique.
M7wma TIL that so many Chinese women get plastic surgery in South Korea that China now warns them to get a doctor’s note since their appearance no longer matches their passport
WkVW9 TIL 'Steve Jobs' is the name of an Italian clothing company created in 2012 when the creators realized that Apple never trademarked Jobs' name.
VB48p TIL that Roland Ratzenberger was supposed to drive for Toyota at the 1994 24 hours of Le Mans. He died before the race in separate fatal crashes, but Toyota still kept his names on the car he was supposed to drive, which finished 2nd overall.
8aRJP TIL in 1951 Guatemalan president Jacobo Árbenz carried out an agrarian reform under which uncultivated portions of large land-holdings were expropriated in return for compensation and redistributed to poverty-stricken agricultural laborers. The US disliked this and the CIA engineered a coup d'etat