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TIL I learned early Alabamians really loved their 'cola'.

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kJ9D4 TIL in 1914 student William Bowlus and several other upperclassmen entered a freshman's room to haze the occupants, however one of the five freshman in there shot Bowlus in the abdomen, killing him. But the men refused to identify which one had fired the shot and a grand jury declined to indict.
KKAw TIL when a diner called a gay couple “fags” and asked them to leave, online activists made it the most highly rated gay bar in Texas using Yelp reviews
GAl41 TIL that some dinosaur fossils are radioactive due to being fossilized with uranium—the fossilization process tends to concentrate radioactive elements
wowp6 TIL of the Sphinx, a french ironclad warship initially built for the confederacy. After the Union blocked the transaction France sold the ship to Denmark, who refused to accept the ship and sold it back to the confederates. The ship then changed hands several times to end his carreer in Japan.
yQAne TIL Marc Benioff, an American Internet entrepreneur with a net worth of $6.9 billion, created the 1-1-1 model of integrated corporate philanthropy, by which companies contribute 1 percent of equity, 1 percent of employee hours, and 1 percent of product back to the community.