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TIL Mountain Dew was originally invented as a mixer for whiskey

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Brpjr TIL there was a black samurai who served under the daimyō Oda Nobunaga who praised him for his strength and was given his own residence and a short, ceremonial katana by Nobunaga. When they first met, Nobunaga suspected his skin was covered in ink and had his skin scrubbed.
wLBLP TIL Carole King has written or co-written 118 pop hits on the Billboard Hot 100. She also wrote 61 hits that charted in the UK, making her the most successful female songwriter on the UK singles charts between 1962 and 2005
GYEPE TIL Pumpkins evolved to be eaten by wooly mammoths and giant sloths. Pumpkins would likely be extinct today if ancient humans hadn't conserved them.
wLWM7 Today I learned a business got the US government to topple a democratically elected government under false pretenses over bananas.
OGeYa TIL that Peter Capaldi became so popular for his performance as the foul-mouthed Malcolm Tucker in "The Thick of It" that fans often ask him to swear at them.