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TIL 70% of milk served in U.S. schools contains on average 4 teaspoons of added sugar per serving (about half the amount of sugar as a serving of Coke).

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R5R16 TIL of Académie de Saint-Luc a guild of painters and sculptors set up in Paris in 1391, it was dissolved in 1777 following such a successful exhibition that the Royal Academy issued an edict to abolish guilds, brotherhoods, and communities of arts and crafts.
gMmZL TIL in Japan, establishments like banks & convenience stores visibly keep baseball-sized orange orbs behind the counter. These “anticrime color balls” are filled with bright pigment that burst on impact & are for employees to lob at robbers (or getaway vehicles) to improve the chance of arrest.
xY1w Today I learned that before getting her own show, Oprah Winfrey co-hosted a morning talk show where she could only speak when her male costar tapped her on her leg.
KKr6 TIL heterosexual prostitution is illegal in Japan, but homosexual prostitution is not. This is because homosexual relations are not “true” sexual conduct, but only “imitation.”
R5Rja TIL about Anna May Wong, the first Chinese-American film star. Her career began in silent movies era and continued to her death. One of the first to adopt the flapper style of the 20s, she was voted “world’s best dressed woman” in 1934. She will be featured in the American Women quarter series.