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TIL Coca-cola originally intended as medicine.Is the ONLY company (US) that can legally import coco leaves. Early Coca-Cola had active amounts of cocaine in it from 1886-1930

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yVZDa TIL a repairman caused $700,000,000 in damage to the USS Miami submarine by intentionally starting a fire to get out of work early.
7gbZ TIL that there is no economic gain to be made from deforesting the Amazon to grow crops, as more deforestation leads to less rainfall which leads to lower crop yield.
7paP TIL in 2006 a man was able to buy $150 of groceries with a fake $200 bill. The front side had a picture of George Bush and the reverse a picture of the white house with various signs on the lawn, one sign said “WE LIKE BROCCOLI”.
Jrg1 TIL A Chinese mathematical genius who had won a gold medal in the International Maths Olympiad denied a full Scholarship to MIT, and chose to become a monk in a Buddhist Monastery
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