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TIL that Wembley stadium used to be called Empire Stadium

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Lwwv TIL that China is implementing a game-like scoring system that ranks all citizens’ levels of “patriotism,” rewards those that agree with the party, and punishes people for interacting with low-scoring citizens
R6gj TIL when Coke marketed their Dasani brand of water in the UK in 2004 it was a PR disaster because they referred to it as “bottled spunk” and used the slogan “can’t live without spunk” not realizing “spunk” was a slang word for semen
OoAEX TIL that the element Cobalt gets its name from a trickster goblin of German folklore, the kobold, because when medieval miners discovered it and tried to smelt it thinking it was silver, it released toxic gasses they believed to be the goblin playing a trick on them.
ER07 TIL : A tomato plant was found on a volcanic island. Scientists weren’t able to figure out how it got there, turns out it had grown from the feces of a scientist that took a dump there.
XEYGj TIL about the Gimli Glider, an Air Canada Boeing 767 plane that ran out of fuel and was safely landed on an abandoned airstrip.