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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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N7NOQ TIL in 2002 a glacier in Russia traveled 11 miles in 6 minutes, reaching a speed of 150 mph as it crashed into a village and killed 100 people.
6QdX TIL that when Milton Bradley invented the game “Life” there was a suicide square.
XEJWR TIL: That John Wilkes Booth was a well-known A-list actor, considered equivalent in status to Leonardo DiCaprio. He was a heartthrob and named “Sexiest Man Alive”
p8MBG TIL that there is now unrefutable evidence that confirms the validity of the previously-labeled "absurd" theory that humans existed in the Americas before the end of the last ice age, further suggesting that a cataclysmic event could have wiped out a previously unknown civilization
PYmWJ TIL the lead singer from the President's of the United States of America, Chris Ballew, is now a prolific children's song writer/performer known as "Caspar Babypants"