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TIL that Orbit gum was originally the low-quality substitute made by the Wrigley Company due to rationing during WWII. Only soldiers got Juicy Fruit.

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mxQZy TIL when 150 doctors, dietitians, and personal trainers were surveyed about how weight loss works only three responded correctly (98% could not fully explain fat metabolism). The correct answer is that fat is converted into carbon dioxide and water - and you exhale most of that fat and pee the rest.
e0ZjL TIL about Patsy Mink, a law school graduate who was prohibited from taking the bar exam because she was a married woman. In 1964, she became the first woman of color elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where she authored Title IX, which prohibits gender discrimination in education.
XEB5X TIL that LEGO is offering a buildable model of the ATLAS particle detector that features all the main components of the real detector, is 50:1 in scale, and is composed of almost 9,500 pieces.
XGQP TIL in 1962 news channel NBC paid a West Berlin team 50,000DM ($150,000 today) to dig under the Berlin Wall, on the condition that NBC could film the escape. 29 East Germans managed to escape, and the resulting NBC film, The Tunnel, won 3 Emmies.
jNa4R TIL a horse stands on the tip of one toe. The remaining “fingers” have long since faded away with the evolution of the horse, but the split bones along the cannon bone are vestigial remnants of the second and fourth fingers