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TIL that sugar was marketed as a diet aid in the 1970s.

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Golg TIL The Massachusetts Language, once spoken by several Algonquin tribes, went extinct in the 1800s. However several documents survived such as Bibles, treaties, and sales papers. In 1993 the Wampanoag tribe started teaching classes and now there are over 400 secondary and 4 native speakers.
9MZX TIL in 2012 there more deaths in active military due to suicide than war death
E0DV TIL in 1994, the pilot of an Aeroflot Airbus A310 allowed his son to sit at the controls during a flight. The boy inadvertently turned off the autopilot controls, sending the plane into hillside and killing all 75 aboard.
P1ljE TIL South Korea once had a website mapping the number of women of childbearing age (15-49) by city and district.
mxdko TIL after civil rights leader Rosa Parks was robbed and assaulted in 1994, Little Caesers' founder Mike Ilich paid her rent every month until she died in 2005.