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

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69WLl TIL that Michael Jackson was, at one point, one of the biggest song owners on Earth, which included the majority of Beatles songs. And who gave him the idea to acquire song rights? None other than Sir Paul McCartney himself.
xVXJ0 TIL Among OKcupid users, men ranked women's attractiveness in an almost perfectly even distribution, and the majority as average. Women ranked 80% of men as worse looking than average, and all the site's male founders as "significantly worse looking."
5rlD TIL There is a Christian theme park in Argentina. With a robot jesus. That rises from the dead every hour.
b9QMZ TIL Moths don't like light at all! They use moonlight to navigate by night. By keeping the moon at a constant angle, they could ensure they traveled in a straight line. Unfortunately, they now confuse electric lights with the moon and try to navigate by them so they keep going around it, confused.
9YGwD TIL about Operation Kitona, when in 1998 Rwandan/Ugandan forces highjacked 4 civilian airliners, flew them to an airbase in western DRC where they amassed 3000 troops, then took over the Inga Dams and cut off power to Kinshasa. Thus began the Second Congo War, second deadliest conflict since WWII.