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TIL: Cats Can't Taste Sweetness

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8arnZ TIL that America consumes 100 acres of pizza per day.
X0MRr TIL The US Embassy in Moscow was blasted with a microwave transmitter from 1953 to 1976 and a Spanish 2019 study found that “Moscow embassy employees in 1976 had a higher cancer mortality rate than the general population and a worse health status than Europe's embassy employees overall.”
69L0J TIL Catherine O’Hara (Moira from Shitt’s Creek) has reversed internal organs, a condition known as situs inversus
4XgyR TIL Kim Kardashian was paid to post a selfie on Instagram and Twitter advertising a pharmaceutical product. Sent to 42 million followers on Instagram and 32 million on Twitter, this illegal advertisement did not contain any risk information or language specifying that it was a paid endorsement.
oRY8K TIL Zak Brown, the current CEO of McLaren F1 racing, won $3,050 on Wheel of Fortune in 1984 as a teenager and spent it all on a go-kart.