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TIL about an outbreak of mass hysteria in Belgium in 1999; hundreds reported cramping, nausea and headaches allegedly from drinking Coca-Cola products. Coca-Cola recalled 30 million products, claiming it had identified the cause of the epidemic. Toxicology experts found no evidence of contamination.

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1QXP TIL that all Mormons who who went to their temple until the 1930’s took an “Oath of Vengeance” against those who had contributed to the death of Joseph Smith including the United States Government.
Z8yM4 TIL that Teddy Roosevelt summited the Matterhorn in 1881, while on his honeymoon in Switzerland. He wrote his sister, "It was like going up and down enormous stairs on your hands and knees for nine hours."
rRg44 TIL the controversial "Smiley Faced Killer" theory, at least 45 male college students across the whole continental US, drown after getting drunk to incapacity. A smiley face graffito being found generally nearish by.
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6bom TIL of Roy Benavidez, a soldier from Vietnam who saved a trapped patrol although getting shot multiple times. Later he was thought dead, and when the doctor was zipping the body bag, Roy managed to spit on his face. Roy had 37 separate bullet, bayonet and shrapnel wounds.