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TIL Carbohydrates are glucose supplements, not an essential nutrient. Our body can produce almost all the glucose we need from fats through gluconeogenesis.

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YpgbB TIL about the Gympie Gympie bush (or “Suicide Tree”). It delivers a sting described as “like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time”. One man was stung and after 3 weeks of agony, was driven “as mad as a cut snake”. Another shot himself after using the leaves as toilet paper.
0Kpy TIL crucifixion is legal punishment in the United Arab Emirates
OG4 TIL that Theodor Geisel was caught drinking gin as a Dartmouth undergrad and forced to resign from the college humor magazine, so he started contributing under a pseudonym—Dr. Seuss.
nemA7 TIL There was a carnivorous mammal that killed and ate dinosaurs
j6AZR TIL There are 5 basic human tastes: sweetness, saltiness, sourness, bitterness and umami.