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TIL Coke was originally marketed as a cure to many ailments including low sexual libido.The creator of Coke,John Pemberton was forced to take the alcohol out of his original coke wine formula due to prohibition laws,but he first touted that version as “a most wonderful invigorator of sexual organs.”

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Z8ZVa TIL that the Joint Chiefs of Staff came up with 'Operation Northwoods', a proposal made to JFK that would allow the CIA to carry out false flag attacks in America. Blame was to be put on Cuba, providing America with the justification for military intervention. JFK rejected the proposal.
7ZRZ TIL that b/c of universe’s increasing expansion rate, the gulf between all other stars and the Earth will eventually be so vast that stellar light, even at its greatest speed, will not be able to reach us, leaving our night sky in pure empty blackness.
kJOKg TIL that the 1812 New Madrid earthquake made the Mississippi River flow backwards and cause a fluvial tsunami that hit Missouri
GY9m7 TIL of the Chewbacca Defense, a legal tactic that confuses the jury rather than factually refuting the opponent's case. The term originated in an episode of "South Park" that satirized the closing argument of the O.J Simpson trial, and is now widely used.
KYABE TIL American writer Jack Kerouac served on SS Dorchester which was torpedoed by a German U-boat on 3 February 1943. Kerouac would have also been on the ship during the attack, but for a telegram he received from coach Lou Little, asking him to return to Columbia University to play football.