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TIL the 1940s, Coca-Cola made a clear coke that resembled vodka for the Marshal of the Soviet Union so he could be seen drinking it without offending Joseph Stalin

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jwwv TIL that having the prefix “Fitz” in your surname once meant that you may have been the bastard son of Royalty.
b91Oj TIL sea mussels use organometallic iron-based bonds in their cuticles. Simulating this feature in synthetic replicas increased tensile strength 58x, toughness 92x, resistance to being deformed elastically 770x, and increased the amount of stress required to permanently damage them 76x.
bY50 TIL: Cesar Millan’s wife (The Dog Whisperer) filed for divorce in March 2010. She ended up receiving a single payment of $400,000, monthly spousal payment of $23,000 (that’s $276,000 a year), AND $120,000 a year in monthly child support. Cesar Millan then attempted suicide.
xg4o TIL In 1965, The World Health Organisation stopped calling Down Syndrome “mongoloids” due to a delegate from Mongolia
lkvN TIL Frederick Douglass was the most photographed American of the 19th century, and never smiled in photographs to not appear stereotypical.