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

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jNYLE TIL Alexander the Great arranged a mass wedding for his Macedonian soldiers to marry Persian women to unite the regions called the Susa Wedding. After Alexander died, all the men except two divorced their Persian wives.
pNde TIL that in 1997, four years before being arrested for spying for the KGB, Robert Hanssen was caught using a password cracker on a federal computer. When asked about this, he said that he was simply trying to install a color printer, and so he needed the administrator password. They believed him.
4rRa TIL James May was fired from Autocar magazine after he put a hidden message using the initial letter in each page
P41J TIL Rice Paddy art is an art form originating in Japan where people plant rice of various types and colors to create a giant pictures in a paddy field.
PR5g TIL that many male spiders tie up the legs of females with silk in a preemptive attempt to avoid being eaten by her during or after sex.