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TIL about sugar alcohols --a component that is now everywhere and cannot be properly digested by humans, hence can cause several gut and digestive issues

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neo8P TIL About the Churchill Club, a group of highschoolers who started a Danish resistance against the Nazis because their government and army didn't put up a very good fight
nebZr TIL that as a percentage of world population, China's population has declined from 37% to 19% since 1750.
5wNB TIL The singer-songwriter Alice Cooper pays yearly royalties to the members of the band, Alice Cooper, for the right to use the name commercially as it was originally the copyrighted band name before he adopted it as his own.
WkRXY TIL, as a non-american, that the american constitution STILL doesnt assure the equality of men and women infront of the Law. What the fuck America
PYOWZ TIL that a practical joker once set 70 old tires on fire inside Mount Edgecumbe, a dormant volcano in Alaska. Local residents thought the volcano was erupting until they saw "APRIL FOOL" spray-painted in 50-foot letters around the rim of the crater. He had been planning the prank for four years.