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TIL in 2010, a Princeton research team discovered that rats with access to high-fructose corn syrup gained significantly more weight than those with access to table sugar, even when their overall caloric intake was the same.

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9wlQm TIL when President Charles De Gaulle visited Harold McMillan at his home in Birch Grove in 1961, the French Secret Service put a special fridge in the coach house filled with De Gaulle's blood in case of an assassination attempt. A Daily Mail reporter was also bitten on his behind by a police dog.
9YgKM TIL: In 1967, India offered China 800 sheeps and 59 yaks to buy peace and to show the world that China can go on a war for petty issues and can't be trusted.
PY7kE TIL that Gin & Tonic originated in India to make quinine, a traditional cure for malaria more palatable for the British army stationed in the region.
Lkk4p TIL the exceptionally articulate child spokesman for Shriners Hospital is a teenager who aspires to be a sportscaster and already has his own YouTube sports channel
MeoLK TIL that the boots worn by the actors portraying American soldiers in Saving Private Ryan were made by the same company that supplied boots for American soldiers during the Second World War.