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by liability 2131 days ago
The ancient Romans used lead acetate as an artificial sweetener. It's shocking to consider this practice in the modern era though.
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That's interesting. Of all the years of making fun of the apartment lease addendum pages about lead paint, I had always just written it off to "dumb things people do". I had no idea there was any kind of rewarding behavior at all.