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TIL there’s a mystery soda machine in Seattle that no one knows who stocks and sells them for 75¢ a pop. And it also has a mystery button that dispenses random and sometimes obscure sodas.

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e0BjE TIL J.P. Morgan died with an estimated fortune of “only” $80 million (approx. $1.5 billion in 2015 dollars), upon hearing this John D. Rockefeller remarked “and to think, he wasn’t even a rich man”.
wAnE TIL via Ancestry, that my family was a part of a eugenics study, that claimed that my grandmother was the “mother of criminals” with over 100 prostitutes and 76 convicted criminals in the family line, the family was urged not to reproduce.
Y7V1Z TIL that Mozart's opera-writer, Lorenzo Da Ponte, also was a professor of Columbia University and ran a grocery store in Pennsylvania
ne0vP TIL: 'Caillou' can be linked to causing young children to act out in temper tantrums due to the show rewarding the same behavior in Caillou
wLw6J TIL Japan has a sticker system for warning other drivers that the driver is inexperienced or elderly. Young drivers are designated with a “Shoshinsha” sticker, and elderly drivers are designated with a “Koreisha” sticker on their cars.