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TIL That Coca leaves are still used in Coca Cola. A company in NJ extracts Cocaine from the leaves for medical uses, then ships the remainder to Coke

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1aEyX TIL No roads connect the Kamchatka Peninsula to the rest of the world but it has a developed tourist infrastructure. The city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy, majority ethnic Russians, has more inhabitants than the entire neighboring Chukotka Autonomous Okrug or Magadan Oblast
LQM0v TIL that John Denver is credited as a co-writer of the New Order song Run 2, after his publishing company sued the band due to the song's similarity to his song "Leaving on a Jet Plane".
OGLe4 TIL about the uncanny valley, which describes the unsettling feeling caused by a robot or computer generated model that looks almost human but is not convincing enough to look like an actual human
x0e0 TIL Mongolia has a navy consisting of one ship, crewed by 7 sailors, of which only one can swim.
MlEV TIL that until the late 1960s, men with long hair were prohibited from entering Disneyland because it did not meet the standards of Disney’s unwritten dress code. Employees were also prohibited from having any facial hair because visitors would associate it with un-American activities.