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Til, The largest border in France is shared with Brazil

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69EPQ TIL that Coca-Cola was originally made with Coca leaves and Kola nuts, which are real things. The soft drink likely now contains neither.
p8RON TIL about Congressman Charlie Wilson's revenge. When he was 13, his neighbor, Charles Hazard poisoned his dog by mixing glass into its food. Years later, when Hazard was running for office, Wilson drove 96 people to the polls, telling them how Hazard had killed his dog. Hazard lost by sixteen votes.
E1pOx TIL the Beatles could not write nor read musical notation
lmd1 TIL a man once took 25 Fentanyl’s (many people OD off of just one) and jumped off a bridge in an attempt to kill himself. He survived due to the cold water shocking his nervous system keeping him alive.
X0Zxk TIL The first YMCA in Montreal was built in 1873 at Victoria Square, then moved to Dominion Square, where the Sun Life Building now stands, and occupied it from 1873 to 1891.