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oB9Br TIL in 1990, Danny Bonaduce was arrested for attempting to buy cocaine on his way to host a D.A.R.E. event.
YpA8r TIL that McDonalds Coca-Cola taste different because it is sent to McDonalds in Stainless Steel containers instead of bags like most restaurants
By0L TIL North America has 6% of the world population but 34% of human biomass
MeynW TIL about Air Canada Flight 759, which erroneously almost landed on a packed taxiway at San Francisco International Airport. It missed one of the planes by 14 feet (4.3m). If it had crashed, it would have been the worst air disaster ever.
9w8kM TIL that in the 1920s a German architect had a plan to drain the Mediterranean sea . The plan called for building a gargantuan dam across the straits of Gibraltar . if successful, this new land connecting Europe and Africa together would have been called Atlantropa .