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When young, I am sweet in th...

When young, I am sweet in the sun. When middle-aged, I make you gay. When old, I am valued more than ever. What am I?

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Did you hear about the psychic amnesiac? He knew in advance what he was going to forget.

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Did you hear about the new restaurant that just opened up on the moon? Great food, but no atmosphere.

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Artificial sweetener patent

In 1966, James M. Schlatter applied for a patent for “Peptide Sweetening Agents” (U.S. No. 3,492,131), an invention which eventually led led to the marketing of aspartame under the name NutraSweet. A few months earlier, in Dec 1965, he had accidentally discovered the first example of such compounds. To pick up a paper, he had licked his finger. He tasted an unexpectedly sweet trace of a substance that had, he realized, earlier splashed onto the outside of a flask he had handled. It contained L-aspartyl-L-phenylalnine methyl ester. The patent was issued 27 Jan 1970, assigned to his employer, G.D. Searle & Co. After development and much scrutiny of the testing of aspartame, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved it (22 Oct 1981) with many permitted uses as a food sweetener.«

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