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TIL Cola and beer is really common in Germany, its called "diesel"

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rNyMy TIL in 1892 Edward Doheny couldn't pay his rent when his daughter died followed by his wife committing suicide. He borrowed money and devised a drilling system using a tree and drilled the first oil wells in Los Angeles becoming an oil tycoon. The movie There Will Be Blood is loosely based on him.
QJ6G9 TIL that Vincent Connare, the man who designed the font 'Comic Sans', said in 2017 that he has only used it once while sending a complaint letter to Sky Broadband. They offered him a £10 refund.
A47x TIL that gaslighting was used as early as WWII by Nazi Germany as one of the Zersetzung psychological manipulation warfare techniques to destroy and drive political opponents to psychosis and suicide.
VQ54 TIL that after Soviet Russia signed a cooperative pact with Nazi Germany in 1939, they invaded and annexed Poland, and they claimed it was to protect the Ukrainians and Belarusians who lived in the eastern part of Poland.
BrkRb TIL that men eat more meat when they feel their masculinity is threatened. This is linked with poor health outcomes.