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TIL that coca-cola was banned in Portugal because the man who wrote the slogan made people think the product was a drug.

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Z8KOa TIL that in the needles of the Pinus flexilis live bacteria that are capable of fixing nitrogen from the air.
vMQ7 TIL: The Golden Buddha statue was completely plastered over before 1767 to prevent it from being stolen, the hidden golden statue was only re-discovered in 1950 when the ropes broke while trying to move the statue causing the plaster to break when it hit the ground.
NeEN TIL President Nixon’s favorite meal was cottage cheese mixed with ketchup.
m1ZEx TIL In 2009, Masanobu Sato masturbated for 9 hours and 58 minutes at the 9th annual World Masturbate-a-thon, holding the record.
BgZPy TIL the village built for the 1980 movie Popeye still exists and is a tourist attraction in Malta.