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TIL in 2020 sugar sweetened beverages were estimated to have caused 80,278 deaths due to type 2 diabetes and 257,962 deaths from cardiovascular disease

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4X8E5 TIL Wilt Chamberlain was able to dunk a basketball from the free-throw line without a running start. Because of this, he routinely dunked his free throws and the NCAA and NBA eventually decided to institute rules to prevent this.
K76G TIL A photon spends 40,000 years getting from the core of the Sun to the surface, but then only 8 minutes to get to Earth.
Y7L7P TIL: Panama is the only place on the planet that has square trees- even the transplanted trees from the square trees grow round as usual when planted in other places outside of Panama. And the “rings,” of the interior tree grow in a square shape, rather than the usual circle, making it truly unique.
4XpNo TIL a group of small worms in a petri dish encased in aluminum survived the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and impact with the ground. They were found over two months later still alive.
wokBJ TIL about 'Times Square', a sound art installation in Times Square hidden below an unassuming grate. Created by composer Max Neuhaus in 1977, the piece is purposefully unmarked and requires visitors to tune into a single resonating sound in the middle of one of the loudest places in America.