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TIL No studies have found MSG unsafe for consumption, and hundreds of studies have found it perfectly safe. Likewise, MSG’s common reputation as unsafe mostly stems from one person’s unverified complaints and speculation, and the substance has been considered safe by the USDA for 58 years.

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4XZvJ TIL that color photography has existed since 1907. The "autochrome" process used millions of microscopic red, green and blue colored potato starch grains that filtered light before it reached the emulsion on a glass plate.
WkQKo TIL that since American baby names' popularity started to be recorded in 1880, only one girls' name has remained around the top 25: Elizabeth. It reached a high of #3 in 1887, low of #26 in 1948, and was the 17th most popular girls' name in 2017.
wLwbE TIL that in 1657 Otto von Guericke, having pumped the air from two copper hemispheres, creating a vacuum, showed that two teams of horses could not pull apart “nothing at all.”
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