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TIL during the Great Depression, a businessman convinced struggling families from a small town in Florida to buy Coca-Cola shares. The town is now filled with "secret Coke millionaires"

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JYG84 TIL George Lucas shifted his interests from cars to film after he crashed his tiny yellow Autobianchi Bianchina and had to be hospitalized for four months
KMrw TIL Brazil prisons offer their prisoners the chance to reduce their prison sentence by four days (up to 48 days/year) for every book they read and write a report on
kQ07 TIL Will Wheaton suffers from generalized anxiety disorder and chronic depression. He supports mental health nonprofit organizations in raising awareness for these conditions.
MokV TIL President Kennedy’s sister was forced to undergo a lobotomy, while conscious under the effect of mild tranquilizers, in an attempt to cure her “rebellious” behavior.
j6olE TIL of a group who walked the entire length of China’s Great Wall in 508 days in 1984