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

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JY7YB TIL that in 2013 recording artist, Beck, had his album Song Reader named 50th best album of the year by Rolling Stone without ever having released a CD. The album was only available as sheet music until 2 years later when it was released as a fan performed compilation.
WB1L TIL Google became more valuable than Russia’s entire stock market back in December 2014
b9yj9 TIL that sponges can reproduce sexually. They can also reproduce asexually but I still find this weird.
KYjb4 TIL that violence alters human genes for generations - Grandchildren of women pregnant during Syrian war who never experienced violence themselves bear marks of it in their genomes. This offers the first human evidence of genetic transmission of stress across generations.
wogpM TIL that the Danube River flows through more countries than any other river on Earth, 10 in total. It begins in the mountains of Germany and winds its way through much of Eastern Europe before emptying into the Black Sea in Ukraine.