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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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v9LD TIL that every Sunday for the last 20 years, someone has been prank calling McSorley’s Old Ale House in New York City to announce, “Your enema is ready.”
EgybP TIL McDonald's was fined $4 million in 1999 for not reporting 400+ injuries of children using Big Mac Climber jungle gyms, where children climbed up a tube from the ground and played between two giant metal hamburger buns. The last Big Mac Climbers were removed from McDonald's playgrounds in 1997.
0Yyy TIL that in the Articles of Confederation, Canada was invited to join the United States should it seek independence. This applied only to Canada unless nine states said otherwise.
QJbNa TIL That in 1889 a postcard was sent from Australia to Scotland and didn't arrive until 2001 - 112 years late
8aBKa TIL Syphilis had many historical names. In Germany it was The French Disease. In France it was The Italian Disease. In Holland it was The Spanish Disease. In Russia it was The Polish Disease. The Turks called it The Christian Disease.