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TIL Coca Cola was sued for murdering three union workers in Colombia

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R5MV4 TIL of Jerome Robbins' "Mistake Waltz", a choreography, where one dancer is always purposely out of step.
1dRD TIL Festivus, the parody-secular holiday celebrated on December 23rd on the TV show Seinfeld, was an actual family tradition celebrated by one of the show’s writers, Dan O'Keefe, since the 1960’s.
Z8KQG TIL Walt Disney's younger sister Ruth lived to age 92. Ruth was very shy and private, giving less than a half dozen interviews over the decades. Walt would send an annual December birthday letter to Ruth, accompanied by a check along with a selection of Disney-related merchandise for her son
P18aV TIL that the Colt Armalite AR-15 was used in Vietnam starting in 1961. Battlefield reports from US Army Special Forces lavishly praised the AR-15 and the stopping-power of the 5.56mm cartridge, pressing for wide adoption as a replacement for the M-14. The M-16 variant was then deployed in 1964.
rJK4 TIL An eight day riot occurred in NY city in 1922 after people wore straw hats past the unofficial date deeming it socially acceptable