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TIL since 2007 Coca Cola has caused 14 deaths PER DAY

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PYMGZ TIL the Chocolate Chip Cookie didn’t exist prior to 1938, when it was invented by the owner of the Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts.
LkMBP TIL that because the Western European medieval monastic day began at 6 am, the word “noon” originally referred to “3 pm” and is derived from the Latin “nona hora” (“ninth hour”). During the 12th-14th centuries, its meaning in English shifted to “midday” and the time gradually moved back to 12 pm.
kJ9lm TIL that the city of Angkor (in modern Cambodia) in the Khmer Empire at its peak covered an area of one thousand square kilometres, approximately the size of modern Los Angeles
NrNP TIL Johnny Cash was the first radio operator to receive the news of Joseph Stalin’s death.
0wBdR TIL in the ‘30s Soichi Sakamoto, 6th grade teacher in Maui, developed H.I. interval training for competitive swimming. Soichi had no experience as a swimmer & coach. He used irrigation ditches to train. A number of his pupils medaled in the Olympics, and many of his training methods are used today.