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TIL Coors Brewing Company provided its slogan “Turn it loose” to Spanish markets and later found that it translated as “Suffer from diarrhea.”

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x6MGB TIL U.S. pennies made before 1982 are 95% copper, but starting in 1982, the Mint switched to 97.5% zinc with a thin copper coating due to copper’s rising cost. Both types were made in 1982. Copper pennies weigh 3.11g, zinc ones 2.5g.
m1doY TIL that drivers may face fines and up to six months' license suspension if they run out of fuel on the Autobahn
G4Og TIL That Hungary held a contest to name a Danube River bridge. Within days, “Stephen Colbert hid” (hid is Hungarian for bridge) was number one in the poll with 17 million votes, seven million more than the population of Hungary.
KOY54 TIL of Ray Holmes, an RAF Pilot who intentionally rammed a German Bomber with his Fighter to stop it bombing Buckingham Palace, bailed out, then went drinking.
JYXZV TIL that "paradise" is a word derived from a proto-Iranian word that meant "walled enclosure"