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TIL Coca-Cola still produces $3 billion worth of pure cocaine per year and sells it to opioid manufacturers

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GApwQ TIL gas stoves are linked to nearly 13 percent of childhood cases of asthma in the United States
VBW7p TIL the distributor for the movie Snowpiercer (2013) requested that the scene involving a fish be removed, but director Bong Joon-ho convinced them to keep it in by lying about his father being a fisherman and claiming the scene was dedicated to him. Bong's father was never a fisherman.
YpJw7 TIL that masochism is named after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, an activist for women's and Jewish emancipation, who enjoyed being a slave to dominant and cruel women dressed up in furs
BEWW TIL there is a gospel according to Mary Magdalene, that is not included in the Bible
VMwQG TIL on the Korean island of Jeju there is a community of women divers (Haenyeo) who carry on a centuries old tradition of free diving for seafood delicacies. Now declining in numbers due to commercial fishing, most Haenyeo today are between 60-80 years old and have been diving over 50 years.