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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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neRv9 TIL the Polish Scouts fought the nazis in the Warsaw uprising, avoiding booby traps of poisoned candy and then went on to resist communism up to the fall of the soviet Union.
erDE TIL that in pre-War Germany, it was considered fashionable and a status symbol for young men to have a scar on their left cheek from dueling with swords.
P1emJ TIL the Righteous Brothers became the first musical act to ever have two versions of the same song in the Billboard Top 20 at the same time when both their original 1965 version of "Unchained Melody" and their new re-recording of the song were released in 1990.
l779B TIL of the Wallstreet bombing of 1920 that killed more than 30 people and injuring more than 300. A driver stopped the animal and it's load near the U.S Assay Office in the heart of Wallstreet and disappeared into the crowd. Within Minutes exploded into a hail of metal fragments and remains unsolved
y6oe TIL a Manhattan driver recently set a record by hitting 240 consecutive green lights.