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TIL Due to difficulties importing the necessary ingredients to make Coca-Cola syrup into Nazi Germany, Coca-Cola company decided to make a new product with the available ingredients at that time, the product is called Fanta.

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KOKJB TIL Louise Fletcher (Nurse Ratchet in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) was so upset that the other actors could laugh and be happy while she had to be so cold and heartless that near the end of production she removed her dress and stood in only her panties to prove she was not a cold-hearted monster
4x6b TIL Despite common belief, in every state it is legal to give performance information in a job reference. Many even protect the employer from being sued for defamation.
Y1gG TIL the Illuminati was an actual secret society whose goals were “to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality.”
Zw7o TIL that in Nevada, public intoxication is not only explicitly legal, it’s illegal for any city or town to pass a law making it illegal.
0jlj TIL a girl cost her father an $80,000 lawsuit settlement after breaking the confidentiality agreement by posting on Facebook “Gulliver is now officially paying for my vacation to Europe this summer. SUCK IT”.