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TIL the creator of RC cola developed his own formula because a Coca Cola salesman refused to give him a reduced price for buying the syrup in bulk

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LbWp TIL Jack Nicholson and Danny Devito were childhood friends. Their parents owned a hair salon together.
vP8N8 TIL As a child, Alice Munro was appalled by the ending of The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Anderson and rewrote the ending to a happy one
DQDXJ TIL that it would take ~18months to walk the Great Wall of China 🇨🇳
grBoy TIL Denzel Washington, the actor who never watches his own films and shuns fame.
PVZZ TIL that “RPG”, when used in reference to the RPG-7 weapon, does not stand for rocket propelled grenade. Instead, it is a Russian acronym for Ruchnoy Protivotankovyy Granatomyot, roughly translated as “hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher”