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TIL diet soda triggers an insulin response just like regular soda and may cause weight gain and increase risk of type 2 diabetes

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ne4Nd TIL that Oscar winner Marion Cotillard is both a 9/11 denier and doubts the moon landing.
paDe TIL a 66 year old man went to the hospital because of stomach pain, to discover he had been a woman his whole life.
L7op TIL of the Sentinelese tribe. They survived a tsunami in 04, lack the knowledge to make fire and are regarded as still in the stone age.
j68Wj TIL that mango skin contains the same rash causing oil as poison oak and poison ivy (urushiol) and consuming or handling the skin can cause skin irritation
p8aX8 TIL that Dan Shechtman was shamed for his ideas on quasicrystals. A Nobel laureate commented that 'there is no such thing as quasicrystals, only quasi-scientists'. In 2011 Dan Schechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize for the discovery of quasicrystals.