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TIL Québec is one of the only places in the world where Pepsi outsells Coca-Cola.

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9JlB TIL that three bodies were found in a storage room on the USS West Virginia when she was re-floated after Pearl Harbor. A calendar kept by the men indicated that they had survived for over two weeks after the attack. [Repost]
d8ldj TIL as the Ford Kuga's name means "plague" in Serbo-Croatian and Slovenian languages, its sales have suffered in these countries.
loxZ1 TIL Around 1990, The Red Hot Chili Peppers appeared on James Whale's show and sexually harassed the show's co-host, Cleo Rocos, to the point that Whale (who was gay) pretended he was engaged to the woman to get the band to stop molesting her.
D10Wj TIL that farmers have cows swallow a big magnet, so when cows eat things like loose nails, it doesn’t travel through their digestive tract and rip it open.
Ydx7 TIL from 1993 to 2008, the same DNA was discovered at 40 different crime scenes in Europe, leading to the investigation of the “Phantom of Heilbronn”, which turned out to be a woman working in a cotton swab factory who inadvertently contaminated the swabs with her own DNA.