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TIL that at the request of President Truman, Coca-Cola made a special clear version of Coke for Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov, so he could pretend he was drinking vodka rather than an American drink

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NJ7P TIL that for 30 mins they turned off the lights in Iceland city enabling people to see night sky whilst a radio programme told them what to look out for
eppdn TIL virtually every delivery app driver in North America is uninsured and could lose everything if they get in an accident while working
BjLK TIL that, due to a wartime shortage of copper, the Manhattan Project borrowed almost 15,000 tons of silver from the US Treasury to make wiring for the electromagnets in isotope-separating mass spectrometers. The wire, worth over a billion dollars at the time, was removed and returned after the war.
4X1wN TIL that 0.3% of bee stings can cause a delayed secondary reaction days or weeks after the initial sting
NX0lJ TIL of the 1866 shipwreck of the General Grant near New Zealand. Of the 83 on board only 15 survived the sinking and became castaways on Auckland Island. After nine months four of the survivors attempted to row for help and were never seen again. After 16 months the last survivors were rescued.