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TIL that no US company can ever perfectly recreate the taste of Coca Cola as one of the ingredients in it is extract from the Coca leaf. Since cocaine is made from the plant only one company in the US can import it - Stepan’s Company. Their only customer is Coca Cola.

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Z8ALo TIL that autism often goes underreported in women because the "issues" in men are often seen as simply quirks in women. (i.e. social isolation, trouble making eye contact, obsessively collecting certain things, not wanting to be touched, overly touchy, etc...)
N7GMJ TIL the first recorded child abuse case in the U.S. was prosecuted using animal cruelty laws, since there were no laws against child abuse at the time.
NXvyM TIL that the tea company Twinings was founded in 1706 as a coffee shop that sold tea to stand out from the competition, and its flagship location still occupies the same premises today
kgDB TIL that children start lying as young as age two, but a child who starts lying at a young age is more cognitively advanced than a child who starts lying art an older age.