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TIL In 1985 A Coke Employee Was Fired for Dating a Pepsi Employee

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PYVOO TIL Hundreds of skeletons are scattered around a site high in the Himalayas, Roopkund lake, in India
Zp5lp TIL that the Champs-Élysées is not just a "busy street", but a name derived from the Greek mythological concept of the Elysian Fields; Champs= fields + Élysées=Elysian (Palace), so it is literally just the farm out the back of the Elysian Palace and the road came later.
PYZgG TIL “that when we see really ancient images of far off and very, very old objects, that light has traveled from that star through the universe for sometimes billions of years and the first object it hit was our telescope detector.”
VMD6B TIL Brad Bird the creator of the 1999 film The Iron Giant was inspired to make the movie from the loss of his sister, who was shot and killed by her husband. The very end of the movie reads “For Susan”.
LkpG0 TIL that in a Black Mirror episode aired in December 2017, a self-driving pizza delivery truck hits a pedestrian. Two weeks later, Pizza Hut and Toyota announced a partnership to make self-driving cars that could deliver pizza.