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TIL Three different artificial sweeteners (saccharin, cyclamate & aspartame) were discovered as the direct result of scientists with poor hand hygiene.

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lVPG TIL Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics, which is about happiness and what makes life worth living, was only published for the first time in a modern language in 2011
O7r7 TIL Sean Schemmel, the English voice actor for Goku in the Dragon Ball series once screamed so hard during a recording for a Super Saiyan 4 transformation that he passed out.
4X5lJ TIL about Vozrozhdeniya, an island in the Aral Sea that was a Soviet bio weapons testing facility. In 1988 the Soviets dumped 100-200 tons of anthrax and bleach there. They also buried hundreds of infected animals and abandoned labs. It is one of the deadliest places on Earth.
rol1 TIL having an O blood type makes you twice as likely to attract mosquitoes than people with A blood type. B blood types fall in the middle of the spectrum.
Dp1g TIL the “X” in “Weapon X”, often used to refer to Wolverine during the time he was being experimented on, is actually the roman numeral for 10. The Weapon X project also produced Sabertooth and Deadpool, and Weapon I produced Captain America.