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TIL heavy smoke conducts electricity.
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TIL Diet Coke is actually the diet version of New Coke while Coke Zero is the diet version of Classic Coke.
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TIL the key to American victory in the Revolutionary War was the 75-ton “Great Chain” that stretched across the Hudson River to prevent the British from moving inland. It was such an obstacle, they paid Benedict Arnold £20,000 for the plans to the Chain’s main defenses, at Fort West Point
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TIL the sound of Maleficent breathing fire as a dragon in “Sleeping Beauty” is sampled from footage of US Army flamethrower drills
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TIL Elephants can be right or left-tusked the same way humans have a dominant hand. Their dominant tusk is usually more worn down.
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TIL “Not from concentrate” orange juice is processed by stripping the oxygen from it that removes flavor compounds, so a flavor pack is added that differs by region based on preferences for sweetness and acidity. The FDA doesn’t require the pack’s contents to be labeled.