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TIL soda is dispensed in plastic bags in the Philippines.

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lQpG TIL that Avshalom Feinberg, an Israeli spy who helped the British defeat the Ottomans, was killed by Bedouins in the desert. His fate was unknown until after the 1967 Six-Day War when his remains were found under a palm tree that had grown from date seeds in his pocket to mark the spot where he lay.
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B5Yy TIL Abraham Lincoln once told a speech so powerful and intriguing that all the reporters simply forgot to take notes and the contents of Lincoln’s speech remains unknown.