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TIL That Vernon's Ginger Ale, is the oldest soda in the US, and was first made in 1866.

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W7Vk9 TIL: Nguyễn Bặc was the ancestor of the Nguyễn clan in Vietnam. Born in 924, he and his brothers became generals who suppressed the historical event known as "The Anarchy of the Twelve Warlords" leading to his status to be raised from peasant class to nobility. All 3 brothers died to treachery.
XEpxX TIL that in 1937 Martin Goodman, the founder of Marvel Comics bought tickets on the Hindenburg to return from his honeymoon in Europe, but couldn't get seats together with his wife, so they took an airplane instead. Marvel Comics #1 came out two years later.
oBjo8 TIL Taylor Wilson built a nuclear reactor at the age of 14. He gets obsessed, his father Kenneth says. Whatever he is involved in, he goes at it non-stop.
yQVxX TIL on 9/11, despite security telling people to stay, Aon executives began evacuating their employees and thus saved 924 lives.
awG4M TIL that the political terms "left-wing" and "right-wing" originated in the French Revolution,where anti-royalists would sit on the presiding officer's left in the French National Assembly, and the more conservative supporters of the monarchy sat to the right.