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TIL Tic Tacs are mainly made of sugar but are allowed to be labelled as zero sugar per serving despite sugar due to their weight.

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GYnr5 TIL Russia has a monument dedicated to lab rats
OobZR TIL About The Paris Commune of 1871. The French workers created the first example of workers' power. They showed what a government of, for and run by the workers would look like.
RrA9 TIL More oil is spilled in the Niger delta every year than was spilled in 2010 by BP in the Gulf of Mexico.
QNlWd TIL baby bottles are at least 3000 years old. Egyptian pottery from 1500 BCE depicts women feeding babies with animal horns, and archaeological evidence shows that ceramic vessels were used as early as 1200 BCE to feed babies with animal milk.
nLPP TIL that, for months after returning from long stays in space, some astronauts will still let go of an object in mid-air fully expecting it to float.