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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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Xxrj TIL that the US has a small piece of land “stuck” in Canada.
ANkaw TIL in 2021 music sales finally returned to the same level as their historical peak, which was in 1999.
KOOPR TIL: Recent Intel Chipsets Have A Built-In Hidden Computer, Running Minix With A Networking Stack And A Web Server...and someones found a way to hack it via USB (see comment)
a8pB0 TIL that Tubercolosis was long thought to be associated with poetic and artistic qualities in its sufferers, and was also known as "the romantic disease". People believed that the fever and infections brought by the disease helped artists view life more clearly.
PYRKO TIL Kanō Jigorō, creator of judo, also served as the Japanese representative to many Olympics and had a pivotal role in securing Japan's bid for the 1940 Olympics. He was indifferent towards the inclusion of judo, however, as it was not "mere sport" but rather "a principle of life, art and science."