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TIL that during WWII the owner of Coca-Cola made sure “to see that every American in uniform gets a bottle of Coca-Cola, wherever he is and whatever it costs the Company.”

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Yg7r TIL that Game of Thrones is filmed in the same studio the Titanic was built in, not the movie but the actual RMS Titanic.
OKOe TIL Domestication is different from taming. You can tame many wild animals so they won’t try to kill you, but domestication requires a change at the genetic level.
Dv9D TIL less than 5% of current deforestation in the Amazon is due to logging. The majority is for cattle ranching.
GYG5E TIL Run-DMC's Darryl McDaniels claims Sarah McLachlan's song "Angel" saved his life from suicide
lokK5 TIL that there is an extremely rare neurological disorder known as "Foreign Accent Syndrome"; persons of any culture, with no prior history of living in a foreign country or speaking its language, can start speaking with a perfect version of its accent, typically after a traumatic brain incident.