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TIL that Diet Soda began with the 1949 launch of La Casera in Madrid, Spain, using cyclamate. In 1969, an experiment at UW-Madison found that a cyclamate combination caused bladder cancer in laboratory rats, and was accepted by consumers and doctors as a cause of cancer in humans.

Qoe6 TIL The lethality of a bullet fired into the air is the only Mythbusters myth that was given all 3 ratings of Busted, Plausible & Confirmed.
l7jbN TIL that Fakin It by Paul Simon was listed at 3'74 and not 4'14 so Radio DJs would play it
a87dM TIL Nazis tried to take Christ out of Christmas because he was Jewish.
X0Ma8 TIL cats have a varying number of nipples.
E1Yao TIL the median age of people who watch cable news is more than 60 years old.