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TIL that in 2014, Red Bull reached a $13 million settlement to resolve two class action lawsuits for falsely claiming that ingredients in the drink were performance enhancing without scientific studies to prove it.

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YpxZZ TIL about Stella, a dog who communicates with her owners using a sound board preprogrammed with her favourite words. Recently her “beach” button broke, so she instead used the buttons for “water” “outside” and “help” to communicate that she wanted to press the beach button and couldn’t.
d8nmr TIL the U.S. didn’t have a designated presidential security detail until 3 presidents had already been assasinated.
96yr TIL Little Tikes, red and yellow Cozy Coupe toy car reached 6 million units in sales by its 25th anniversary in 2004, and was called the “world’s best-selling car for much of this decade” by The New York Times in 1998, outselling the Honda Accord and Ford Taurus.
9Ybx7 TIL learned that James Barry, a military surgeon, was actually born as a woman and pretended to be a man throughout her life. In hindsight, she was UKs first female doctor.
56nB TIL Princeton, an Ivy League university, doesn’t have a business, law, or medical school