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TIL that Coca Cola had tried to sell bottled water at a premium price which happened to be tap water taken from the mains

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78Eep TIL in the final years of his life, Harry Houdini spent substantial time and energy targeting 'spiritualists' who claimed they could read minds or communicate with the dead. Houdini saw this as an unethical branch of his profession that manipulated people vulnerable with grief.
VM1P4 TIL that Japanese socialist politician Inejiro Asanuma was assassinated in 1960 with a katana on live television.
V5m TIL there is a conspiracy theory that Egyptian treasures and tunnels were found in the Grand Canyon in 1909 and subsequently covered up by the Smithsonian. The area in question has numerous Egyptian landmark names and is currently off-limits to all hikers.
NXvPb TIL that the monobloc chair has received a polarised social reception, being described by some as "the real evil of globalization", while others have called it one of "the world's most perfectly designed object".
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