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TIL tins of diet coke float in water while tins of regular coke sink.

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kL6g TIL that in the UK there is a high court judge known as Mr. Justice Mann
xGvD TIL in 1860 the original The Game of Life board game had a “suicide” option.
4kgZg TIL: Doctors used to blow tobacco smoke up your butt to cure cold, drowsiness, save people from drowning, headaches, etc. An early example was described in 1686 which describes shoving a pipe in and then repeatedly pumping in smoke. Early critics were worried it made the brain "sooty".
WkmZo TIL Avocado Toast is not a new dish but has been consumed in San Francisco for 135 years.
XVbR TIL Meredith Gardner, a codebreaker was able to work out that more than 200 American citizens were Soviet agents between 1930 and 1945. One of the spies was William Weisband, who was one of Gardner colleagues on the project, and had told the Soviets as soon as the code was broken.