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TIL twilight was originally rejected by 14 publishers.
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TIL Of White Coke a highly illegal substance in the Soviet Union. It was regular coca-cola disguised in a vodka bottle and it was given to Field Marshall Gregory Zhukov by US general Eisenhower. Zhukov could not drink coke in public as it was a symbol of capitalism so the vodka bottle disguised it.
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TIL: The first item/invention to break the sound barrier was the whip. The cracking is a sonic boom.
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TIL that "One step beyond" by 70s-80s UK band Madness is a cover of a 1964 song by artist Prince buster (Cecil Bustamente Campbell)
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TIL of the Diverging Diamond Interchange; a type of highway interchange in which the directional roadways of the non freeway road switch over each other either temporarily using under/overpasses or traffic signals, making it simpler to enter and exit the freeway.
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TIL that in 1493 King James IV conducted an experiment by sending a mute woman and her two infants to an empty island to see what language the children would naturally speak in isolation from the rest of the world.