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TIL that there is open source cola, OpenCola, which allows you to edit and submit improvements for the recipe.

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dkVQ TIL that if something is “hot as balls,” it’s about 93 degrees fahrenheit.
Ll5m TIL The time it takes our sun to orbit the center of the Milky Way is called a “Galactic Year” and is ~225 million Earth years. By that definition, dinosaurs went extinct last year, our sun is an adult at 18.4 years old, and the Big Bang happened just 61 years ago.
aw5a0 TIL North Korea adopted color television broadcasts (1974) 6 years before South Korea (1980) despite the latter already producing color TV sets for export.
x6A7w TIL the 85-year-old Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest longitudinal study in history, found that people who did more chores during childhood often had more professional success and happiness later in life.
Q0K6 TIL the US is seeking a new law requiring foreign institutions to report all assets owned by Americans which has lead to more people renouncing their citizenship in the last quarter of 2013 than the entire years of 2006-2009 combined.