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TIL that nutrition labels for pure sweeteners like Maple Syrup and Honey still list all their sugars as "Added Sugars", despite being the entire product

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4X6Ma TIL Ameican women didn't start shaving their armpits until 1915... this sudden change was due to an advertisement in Harper's Bazaar fashion magazine. It was so effective that now 90% of US women shave their pits.
KYK66 TIL about PCR, which is a technique to make billions of copies of a specific DNA from a very small sample. The mix containing DNA is repeatedly heated and cooled, this breaks the DNA molecule and then duplicates it exponentially. The secret? A bacteria living in hot springs has a special enzyme
L0A9 TIL 12 years ago Portugal decriminalized all hard drugs. Today, drug abuse is down half of what it was in their country.
wkZE TIL In the movie “Lord of War”, the production team bought 3000 real AK47s to use in the movie, instead of prop guns. Why? It was cheaper.
Z8x0v TIL of Peter O'Connor, an Irish Olympian forced to compete under Great Britain due to a rule change. Unhappy with this, he smuggled in a green Irish flag and proceeded to scale Britain's flag pole during the award ceremony. He waved his flag at the top while his teammate guarded the bottom.