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TIL That coca-cola used the swastika in advertising prior to WWII when the Nazis ruined the symbol forever.

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OGg74 TIL that the 1994 slow speed police chase of OJ Simpson in a white Ford Bronco was the 6th most watched television broadcast in US history at the time, and since then only Super Bowls have had more viewers.
6EQeQ Matter tells space how to curve, and curved space tells matter how to move. That's the basic principle behind Einstein's General Relativity, which linked, for the first time, the phenomenon of gravity with that of spacetime and relativity. Place a mass down anywhere in the Universe, and the space around it will curve in response. But if you take that mass away, or move it elsewhere, what causes the spacetime to "snap back" to its unbent position?
4ad5 TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson said of the 1968 Baltimore riots: “What did you expect? I don’t know why we’re so surprised. When you put your foot on a man’s neck and hold him down for three hundred years, and then you let him up, what’s he going to do? He’s going to knock your block off.”
1a8NV TIL for several years the CIA paid sex workers to bring men back to a “safehouse” brothel so they could secretly dose them with LSD and watch what happened through a two-way mirror in an effort to find a mind control drug.
OjJ6 TIL that a benign mold is added to the casing on traditionally dried-cured Italian meats to act as a natural preservative and antioxidant so the meat does not become “rancid”.