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TIL The 1971 Coca-Cola ad ‘I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)’ featured a group of young multicultural people lip-synching the song on a hill to represent global unity. The South African government requested a version of the ad but without the black actors. Coca Cola refused

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JYol4 TIL Paul Newman's friends loved his homemade salad dressing so much he started a company to sell it. That company, which now sells a variety of foods, gives 100% of its profits to charities. Newman never took any money and in just its first decade over 50 million dollars was given away.
ZAYD TIL Nintendo had its own cereal brand, created in 1988. It promoted both Super Mario Bros. & The Legend of Zelda. The box was divided in two so one could enjoy super mushrooms & goomba’s from the Mario side, as well as heart containers & boomerangs from the Zelda side.
R5N9j TIL the first recorded use of suicide bombs in warfare was actually during the 1937 Battle of Shanghai and 1938 Battle of Taierzhuang with three instances of Chinese Nationalist soldiers destroying invading Japanese tanks and infantry platoons by strapping explosive grenade belts to themselves
WkkrX TIL South Korea has completely Autonomous Turrets, SGR-A1 developed by Samsung, deployed along its entire 160 mile border with North Korea, making it the most militarized border in the world.
EgbAx TIL Cheez-Its were not officially introduced to Canada until January 2020, followed by the United Kingdom and Ireland in September 2024.