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TIL Disneyland receives free coca-cola products in return of not selling any other competitors. So each sale is 100% profit.

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mxKgY TIL in 1964 a super cyclone destroyed a town called Dhanushkodi, making it into a ghost town. The storm overturned a train entering it's railway station killing over 200 passengers. 4 radio operators braved the storm to continue broadcasting, and survived by clinging on to a bridge for 12 hours.
aw8QJ TIL that there are scented bowling balls and, contrary to rumor, the creator came up with them because bowling pro shops are stinky places.
db9d TIL the first actor for the alcoholic Waco Kid in Blazing Saddles lost the role because he was an alcoholic
rRmW4 TIL researchers from Texas State University left a human corpse on a 26-acre woodland site to study how human bodies decompose in the wild. They ended up capturing the first image of a deer eating human remains.
mabR TIL that a Chinese man bought and raised two puppies, cared for them despite their frequent killing and eating of chickens, and then discovered they were bears.