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TIL That we've been accidentally finding ancient cheese all across the globe

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wLoPo TIL in 1976, Henry Kissinger became the first honorary Harlem Globetrotter.
GYGPQ TIL about "Cherophobia". It's a belief that when you become happy, something bad will happen right after.
OoE4a TIL there was a short lived British remake of the sitcom That 70s Show called Days Like These. Other than some name changes it was a word for word remake of the original.
9YLwB TIL People are still falling for Nigerian Prince scams, and Americans are losing over $700,000 every year to these scams.
xVWAb TIL that sugar molecules have "handedness" (like, left hand vs right hand), and that all of them are right handed. There are artificial sweeteners that are left-handed, but still the same molecule, and so cannot be absorbed by the human body. They're still sweet!