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TIL Pepsi is being sued because of its Naked Juice marketing. While the juice is marketed as “healthy”, it actually has a higher sugar content than an equivalent amount of Pepsi Cola.

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pYvOe TIL “Just Desserts” is a pun. The original phrase, “Just Deserts”, describes not desert climates but “moral deserts”—or, things which one morally deserves. “Desert” and “Deserve” share an old French root, but the word “desert” is very rarely used in this form in modern day.
R7DD8 TIL during the Apollo 11 lunar descent, Neil Armstrong, who was manually piloting the craft, heart rate was under 90bpm. After the Eagle touched down, it spiked to almost 160 bpm
mx1BY TIL that Sweden contains 267,750 separate islands, the most for any country. Less than 1,000 are permanently inhabited.
R5kr8 TIL Almost 300 birds were shot at the 1900 Summer Olympics. This was the only Olympic Game to use live animals as targets.
wE1M TIL Queen Ants can live up to 30 years. A queen ant was held in captivity by German Entomologist Hermann Appel for 28¾ years