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TIL Diet Coke has about 30% more caffeine than regular Coke

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RGDw TIL British accents originally sounded closer to modern American, but changed in the 19th century to show status. Historians maintain that Shakespeare plays sound better with American actors
yVJow TIL that the instrument in Samba music that makes a sound like rubbing a balloon or a McDonalds straw in a cup is a percussion instrument called a cuica.
WkDRo TIL that Bob Ezrin, the producer of Pink Floyd's The Wall album, was banned from coming to the "Wall tour" shows by Roger Waters — he was angry that Ezrin had leaked the concept of the show to a journalist friend (unintendingly acc. to Ezrin). Ezrin bought his own ticket and went anyway.
GYPA5 TIL A SYNANAGRAM is a word whose letters can be rearranged to form a different word with the same meaning—like ‘angered’ and ‘enraged’. ‘Twelve plus one’ is an anagram of ‘eleven plus two.’ and both add up to 13!
OoMo6 TIL the sunscreen rating SPF 15 means 1/15th of the UV-B radiation is not blocked. SPF 30 means 1/30th, etc.