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TIL soda is dispensed in plastic bags in the Philippines.

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NXxaQ TIL Gotham City from Batman is named after an English village known for being full of fools; in legend, in order to avoid a visit from the king, the villagers carried out absurd tasks, such as drowning an eel in water, to convince the king’s messengers they were imbeciles
7ZXL TIL Cats cannot taste anything sweet. Instead, they can taste ATP, the biomolecule that supplies energy within living cells (meat).
Enmo TIL that hundreds of years ago most people would go to sleep early, wake up for about an hour in middle of night and do various things, and then go back to bed for a ‘second sleep’
QJnZ6 TIL near the end of WWI, a small fortified town in France called Le Quesnoy was liberated from the Germans after four years of occupation, by New Zealand soldiers in a sneak attack, with zero civilian casualties. Multiple memorials and many of the town's streets are named in NZ's honour.
9BAp TIL Max von Laue had his Nobel Prize gold medal melted down and put in a solution to be hidden from Nazis. It was recovered and re-cast after the war.