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TIL that during the Great Depression a businessman turned a poor Florida town into the richest US city per capita by convincing the populace to YOLO into Coca Cola stock, the value of which proceeded to appreciate vastly

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d8nWQ TIL of a Florida Man who asked to show his penis to the jury to bolster his defense that he accidentally asphyxiated his gf during oral sex
dXy8 TIL gonorrhea is nicknamed “The Clap” because of an old method for treatment, “that used to clear the blockage in the urethra from gonorrhea pus, where the penis would be ‘clapped’ on both sides at the same time.”
MYrm Today i learned, there is a river in china so polluted it has turned red.
16VkW TIL None of the native species of bee in Australia are true honey bees. Social species of native bees do produce honey, but not much, as they are relatively primitive bee species. And the bees that do produce honey store it in small resinous pots which look like bunches of grapes
6XDw TIL Antarctic explorer Lawrence Oates sacrificed his life for his crew by walking to his death in −40 °F. His last words were “I am just going outside and may be some time.”