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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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GYwA5 TIL in 1709, a colonial delegation brought four Indians to London—three Mohawks and a Mahican—and presented them in London as the “Four Indian Kings” of the Iroquois. The four kings met Queen Anne, dined with nobility, attended the theater, and toured the sites.
wXA6 TIL FedEx CEO Fred Smith saved the company in the 1970s by gambling their last $5000 in Vegas
YplgB TIL from 2003-2009 there was a wild wolf named Romeo who befriended the people and dogs of Juneau AK.
eMKE TIL that George Washington’s only military surrender was to the French.
yQpX TIL that two men drove from New York to Los Angeles in only 31 hours, breaking hundreds of traffic laws along the way