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TIL splenda was discovered when a foreign graduate student was told to test a chlorinated sugar compound. He thought he was asked to “taste” it, so he did. It was later found to be safe to eat.

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j61wR TIL about the Younger Dryas Impact Theory, the idea that 12,800 years ago, the resulting impacts from a comet breaking up over earth's atmosphere would have struck glaciers and ice caps across the globe could have caused the great flood present in many ancient culture's stories/myths
neQ1Y TIL: During the interwar period, the United States operated a fleet of flying aircraft carriers. Each of these airships could carry six aircraft. After crashes destroyed all of them but the Zeppelin built USS Los Angeles, the program was cancelled.
4kNpX TIL that extended Cigarette holders had many useful purposes.
b9Yp4 TIL that Dr. Anthony Atala out of Boston Children's Hospital successfully 3D bio-printed a bladder for a cancer patient and it is continually to function after over a decade.
PYGBO TIL that for 15 years, Sweden thought enemy submarines were invading their waters, but it turned out to be farting herrings. Shoals were huge enough for the collective flatulence to register on military radar, producing sounds and small bubbles which were mistakenly identified as Russian subs.