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TIL Coca-Cola’s distribution network is being used to transport life-saving medicines to remote regions of Zambia.

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PY5OV TIL After Richard Nixon’s landmark trip to China in 1972, the couple were gifted a pair of Pandas by then Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai. This gift created a new sensation among Zoos, and Toy makers, even gracing Time magazine. In return, the U.S. government sent China a pair of musk oxen.
9arX TIL men had to swim nude in all grades of public school gym class up until the early 1970s.
VMxGZ TIL: Norway and Senegal are the only national football teams that have never lost against Brazil (Norway has won twice and drawn twice)
80G8 TIL That the “clap” from the clapperboard in television when the director yells “action!” is used to sync the audio with the video for that take.
p8GrA TIL women in Ontario are allowed to be topless in public, especially on the streets of Toronto