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TIL Coca-Cola still uses coca leaves in its signature syrup, and there is only one factory in the US with the unique DEA license required to remove the cocaine.

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7jOx TIL for Donald Ducks’s 50th birthday, Walt Disney World hatched 50 Peking ducks in front of Donald Duck, so they would think he is their “mother” and follow him around for a birthday celebration parade.
awJ6N TIL the fact that Neil Armstrong was to be the first to walk on the moon was inadvertently decided by the LEM designers, who placed the inward swinging hatch's hinge on its right side. When opened, the hatch blocked the pilot seat and meant Aldrin could only leave after Armstrong exited the lander.
KljJ TIL the Chainsaw was originally designed as a medical tool used in Symphysiotomy - the widening of a woman’s pelvis to aid in childbirth
AD104 TIL The magic of Star Wars was largely thanks to one man, Roger Christian, who spent countless hours without getting paid, constructing the worlds on screen from piles of scrapped airplanes.
GaD7 TIL that the Soviet Union cancelled history exams in 1988 because increased government transparency had revealed that the textbooks were filled with lies