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TIL that celebrating Christmas is punishable by five-year imprisonment in Brunei

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x6PNw TIL that Diet Soda began with the 1949 launch of La Casera in Madrid, Spain, using cyclamate. In 1969, an experiment at UW-Madison found that a cyclamate combination caused bladder cancer in laboratory rats, and was accepted by consumers and doctors as a cause of cancer in humans.
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