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TIL Coca Cola is paying $100,000 to anyone who can find a new source of natural sweetener.

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Zp90R TIL that despite the second X chromosome being thought of as totally inactivated in XX cells, ~15% of genes escape silencing. These same genes are present on the Y chromosome, ensuring they are always bi-allelically expressed.
jpaR TIL the Milky Way has several “satellite galaxies”, smaller galaxies that orbit our galaxy like moons to a planet.
mxmOp TIL that the last Ottoman Sultan spent the first 56 years of his life as a captive in a room known as “The Cage” before ascending to the throne. The purpose of the practice was to confine rival male heirs.
R58R9 TIL a student in Brown University, between the years 2003-2008, changed the name of the posterior bundle into his name (Baum's loop). This information was subsequently taught and referenced worldwide and was even included in Gray's Anatomy.
695ow TIL that Legionnaire's Disease is named after the American Legion