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

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4k4Yo TIL Avro Vulcan bomber pilots, on nuclear missions, would wear a standard black eyepatch to protect one eye from the flash of a nuclear bomb. Taking it off once they were blinded in the exposed eye.
R6Zj TIL that movable type capital letters were stored in a separate drawer or case from the regular letters. The capital letters in the “upper case” and the others in the “lower case” and are hence called so.
NXgVN TIL that the longest professional baseball game in history occurred in 1981 and was 33 innings long, ending at 4am
ANpEa TIL During Pol Pot’s rule from 1975 to 1979, it is estimated that 1.5 to 2 million people, nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population, perished due to forced labor, starvation, diseases, torture, or execution.
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