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TIL the Pepsi Co. Throwback line (including Mountain Dew) is sweetened by beet sugar instead of cane sugar or high fructose corn syrup

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d8nLj TIL that Greek art strongly influenced Buddhist art following Alexander's conquests across the Middle East. Statues of Buddha did not exist before this, and Greco-Buddhism reached as far as Japan, where the wind God Fujin is still closely modeled after depictions the Greek wind God Boreas.
WkKYL TIL - In 2014, Stephen Collins, the actor who played Eric Camden on 7th Heaven TV Show as well as Commander Decker on Star Trek the Motion Picture, confessed to diddling children and then moved to Iowa to live in seclusion.
ek46 TIL Puerto Ricans were granted US citizenship against unanimous opposition: the local govt said it was a ploy to conscript Puerto Ricans for WWI. If Puerto Rico became a state today, it would have a higher population than 22 existing states.
lkAK TIL that the 3 best selling videogames of all time are Tetris, Minecraft and Wii Sports.
eA75 TIL Robert Taylor, inventor of soap-in-a-pump-bottle (Softsoap), knew larger competitors like Colgate would try to copy his product. In order to ensure they couldn’t copy him, he bought every small bottle hand-pump (100 million bottles) in the US. This resulted in a year of the market to himself