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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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O8dg TIL in the 1960s an Indo-American expedition tried to place a nuclear-powered monitoring device on a peak in the Himalayas, but it was lost in an avalanche. 5 kilograms of plutonium remain unaccounted for, somewhere near the source of the Ganges River.
Y7R0x TIL Ants sleep for 5 hours a day in short 1-2 minute naps with their longest being around 10.
6ELD7 TIL in a 2016 UK National Lottery draw, 5 of the 6 winning numbers were multiples of 7. As many people consider 7 a lucky number and selected these numbers, the prize money for picking 5 winning numbers ended up less than the prize money for those that picked 3.
6yew TIL Argentine ants have a worldwide mega-colony, and if they get in an airplane and travel to a different continent, they will be welcomed in the foreign branch of the colony
lgxV TIL in 1981, a pediatrician saved the life of a 3.2-pound premature baby boy by working around the clock to beat the odds & stabilize him. In 2011, the pediatrician was pinned inside a burning vehicle after a car collision, but was saved by the premature baby, who had grown up to become a paramedic.