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

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YpN5P TIL Babe Ruth was the guest of honor at a Harlem fundraiser for the benefit of a local African-American church. Other white celebrities had similarly committed to attend, but only Babe kept his word. He contributed some autographed balls along with twenty bucks out of his pocket
yVN9l TIL that the Ancient greek believed that a good-looking man is an indicator of his inner goodness while a woman's outer beauty is a reflection of her inner evilness. "She was evil because she was beautiful, and beautiful because she was evil"
e7og TIL King David, Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, and Alexander the Great are the four kings in a deck of cards.
nWXxo TIL the BIPM doesn't use a physical rod that's exactly 1 metre similar to the physical "Kilogram" specimen, instead use concise measurement of light & time defined in 1984 by the CGPM as the distance light travels, in a vacuum, in 1/299,792,458 secs with time measured by a cesium-133 atomic clock.
WxKA TIL Most children in New Zealand start school on their 5th birthday as opposed to the beginning of the school year