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TIL the least densely populated countries (with at least 8 million citizens) are Australia and Canada.

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Lkp79 TIL in 1909, the United States Government confiscated Coca-Cola products because the high caffeine content breached a food safety law. This case went all to the way to the Supreme Court, and the government won, forcing Coca-Cola to pay all court costs and reduce their product's caffeine content.
XEpVj TIL After 3 years at Harvard, Gabe Newell dropped out to join Microsoft in 1983. He later said: "I learned more in 3 months at Microsoft than in my entire time at Harvard"
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JpEQ TIL Al Capone was taking in about $105,000,000 a year in the 1920’s, or about 1.4 billion in today’s dollars
8aX9L TIL Malcolm X said that white people could not join his black nationalist Organization of Afro-American Unity, but "if John Brown were still alive, we might accept him." Brown was a famous abolitionist convicted and hanged for treason after attempting to lead a slave rebellion in 1859.