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TIL that in the 1940's Coca-Cola produced a version of Coke called White Coke at the behest of a Marshall of the Soviet Union

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WLdL TIL: Otis Redding’s “Sitting On the Dock of the Bay” was finished after his body was pulled from a lake while strapped into the copilot’s chair. Oh…and it’s the 26th greatest song of all time.
XEMo6 TIL Milton Berle, considered America’s first TV star, had a massive penis. In his autobiography, Berle tells of a man who accosted him in a steam bath and challenged him to compare sizes, leading a bystander to remark, “go ahead, Milton, just take out enough to win”
LDlr TIL that after Kanye West interrupted Tayor Swift, Comedy Central played South Park’s ‘Fishsticks’ episode on repeat for 2 hours.
E1Mkd TIL the DNA Doe Project has helped identify over 24 victims. Some families receive closure after 20+ years. Victims range from a bootlegger found in 1979 to a woman thrown from a truck in 2017. The volunteers work from donations. You can also help by submitting your DNA results to GEDmatch.
69XlW TIL that CarMax was founded by the now-defunct consumer electronics company, Circuit City