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TIL Roald Dahl was the screenwriter for You Only Live Twice, a Bond classic.

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k4vW TIL there exists another government in the U.S. called the Republic for the United States of America. They claim the U.S. is a corporation and has been unlawful since 1871.
VMKpp TIL Mountain Dew was originally developed as a mixer for liquor. Tennessee bottlers Barney and Ally Hartman developed Mountain Dew as a mixer in the 1940s as they had difficulty in Knoxville obtaining their preferred soda to mix with liquor, preferably whiskey, so they developed their own.
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