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TIL that Coke tastes better when ordered from McDonald’s because, McDonald’s restaurants can syrup delivered from a tanker truck and store it in a stainless steel cylinder, keeping the syrup fresh.

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OGn6e TIL the manikin flying around the moon right now is named after Arturo Campos, the NASA engineer responsible for the plan to provide the Apollo 13 command module with enough power to get home safely, which was represented by Gary Sinise in the Apollo 13 film.
gMLa8 TIL a California dam collapse in 1928 is considered one of the worst engineering disasters in US history. Its chief engineer took sole responsibility, testifying, "If there was an error in human judgment, I was the human." Over 400 people were killed when the dam failed in the middle of the night.
Y7bB TIL that someone has written cat-face-detection software named ‘kittydar’
BrZWr TIL André Roussimoff (aka Andre the Giant) has been unofficially crowned "the greatest drunk on Earth" and is said to have once drank 156 16-fl-oz beers in one sitting
b9vpN TIL When famous mathematician R. H. Bing applied for a visa, he was asked to not use initials. Upon explaining his name was "R-only H-only" Bing, he got a visa made out to Ronly Honly Bing.