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e06p5 TIL that the drink Crystal Pepsi was killed in the US due to a "kamikaze" marketing campaign by Coke. Coke created the drink Tab Clear, designed to be unpopular, and marketed it so that consumers would conflate the two drinks even though they were not similar. It worked and both were pulled in 1994.
PY4xn TIL the Berlin Wall came down by mistake. When the East Germans planned to slowly open the border they announced it at a press conference without including a plan. When a reporter asked when it would be opened, the party official mistakenly said "Immediately, without delay" causing a run on the wall
wo8rJ TIL about America's Marine Highway, a United States Department of Transportation initiative aiming to use the United States' 29,000 miles of navigable waterways to alleviate traffic and wear to the nation's highways caused by tractor trailer traffic.
GAPDN TIL the 1956 Summer Olympics were held in Nov-Dec because the host city, Melbourne, is in the Southern Hemisphere.
Y7Ax TIL that laying on your right side aggravates heartburn, and laying on your left can stop it.