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TIL that the loudest word ever shouted was the word 'quiet'.

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0waKN TIL Ernest Gallo created Thunderbird Wine after seeing wine in the inner city sold next to koolaid. Salesman dropped empty bottles in skid row neighborhoods to promote brand awareness. It worked so well when Gallo greeted a bum with, "What's the word?', he shouted, "Thunderbird." Both laughed.
lVMa TIL the 1995 Chicago Heat Wave killed 739 people, more than the great fire of 1871.
xOpk TIL the average U.S. wedding now costs $31,213 (excluding the honeymoon).
4kmZR TIL that 37 American pilots in '54 participated in the DBP battle on the French side against the Vietnamese, and two were killed in action
moWM TIL that congressional approval for the first Gulf War was effected by the testimony of a Kuwaiti nurse who claimed to have witnessed Iraqi soldiers pulling babies out of incubators and throwing them on the floor to die. This never happened. The nurse was not a nurse. She was coached by a PR firm.