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TIL Burglars defecating in premises they have robbed is a common occurrence and has been the subject of scientific study

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YVZ7 TIL: When men and women work a 4-39hr a week job, women out-earn men (table 5, page 27).
Wxmd TIL That Coca-Cola ran a program called H2NO - A campaign to teach waiters how to get customers to say “No” to H20
5d1p TIL Tropicana OJ is owned by Pepsico and Simply Orange by Coca Cola. They strip the juice of oxygen for better storage, which strips the flavor. They then hire flavor and fragrance companies, who also formulate perfumes for Dior, to engineer flavor packs to add to the juice to make it “fresh.”
d8ZZ9 TIL at least once a day, your immune system destroys a cell that could have become a cancer cell if it lived
AOMa TIL that in 1981, the Russians successfully landed on the surface of the hottest planet on our Solar System, Venus. The Venera 13 probe later returned the first color images of the surface of Venus.