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TIL Hansen's soda is owned by Coca Cola.

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wL1VJ TIL that when a new IKEA was built in Valladolid, Spain, in 2011, the company held an online poll on how to name the road leading to the store. The majority voted for: "Calle Me falta un tornillo" ("I'm missing a screw Road"), and IKEA and the municipal administration named the road accordingly.
JmGv TIL that The Day After, a 1983 made- for- TV movie about nuclear war and it’s horrific effects, was watched by about 100 million people when it aired. President Reagan was left deeply depressed after viewing it, the film is now seen as having pushed him to start advocating nuclear disarmament
W75DL TIL that, despite hosting the World Cup in 2022, no player born in Qatar has ever scored in the tournament, with the only goal coming from Ghanaian-born Mohammed Muntari
9YDyp TIL professors of universities during the Vietnam War inflated students' grades in order to help them avoid the draft.
pYJ0Q TIL that the U.S. uses trained Bottlenose dolphins to find mines underwater. The dolphins use their highly evolved biosonar to discover these hard-to-find mines.