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TIL that Battle of Grunwald painting depicting Polish-Lithuanian victory over German Teutonic Order topped list of most wanted paintings by Nazis, whoes aim was to destroy it. Bounty of 10M marks was offred by Goebbles and several restance mebers died protecting its location, but it survived the war

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OGQl7 TIL Pepsi lost a $1.26 billion judgement against Charles Joyce and James Voigt after they said the company had created Aquafina by stealing their idea to sell purified bottled water. This was then vacated after Pepsi lost the paperwork to the lawsuit.
KYBX9 TIL there are regions for DVDs, and if your dvd player doesn’t match the disk’s region, it won’t play.
exen TIL that Ben & Jerry’s sends all of their ice cream waste to local farmers to be used as pig feed. The pigs love the ice cream, but they refuse to eat one flavor. Mint Oreo.
rR1eM TIL that when Coolio was asked to work on the soundtrack for “Dangerous Minds”, Stevie Wonder allowed him to use the instrumental and chorus samples from his song “Pastime Paradise” only if Coolio agreed to not include any profanity. Coolio said yes and the masterpiece “Gangstas Paradise” was born.
ep6bD TIL on January 31, 1977 Evel Knievel jumped a tank full of sharks; Fonzie didn't jump the shark until September of the same year