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Oo4Y6 TIL that Coca-Cola was originally made to cure addiction
DN6r TIL almost half of all college students in the USA drop out of college and never graduate.
Eg46P TIL there's little to no evidence that ancient Roman culture discriminated social statuses based on skin color.
d8dGE TIL The seafloor sonar data obtained during the underwater search for Flight 370 gave scientists an unusually-large section of deep-ocean seafloor mapped at high resolution; Data revealed numerous subsea volcanoes and evidence of large submarine landslides
BrVxd TIL Stephen King's 1974 novel, Carrie, was rejected by 30 publishers before Doubleday bought it and paid him a $2,500 advance. The hardcover sold only 13,000 copies, but Signet bought the paperback rights for $400,000, finally allowing King to quit teaching and become a full-time writer.