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TIL a Coca-Cola employee can get fired for drinking Pepsi on the job

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gVa9 TIL that Pope John XII either died during sex with a married woman or was beaten to death by her husband, among many other scandalous acts he performed (affairs, toasting to the devil, ordaining a ten-year-old boys as a bishop, etc., etc., etc.).
oBnXA TIL After the assassination of Julius Caesar a large comet hit the Earths atmosphere, it was seen in Rome and China, and may have been brightest daylight comet in recorded history, it led to Caesar being Deified, an Imperial Cult, and the building of the ‘Temple of the Comet Star’.
e0Kgn TIL that wax worms can eat and break down one of the most common plastics, polyethylene. Their digestive process breaks the plastic's chemical bond, producing an organic compound.
eVok TIL that there is a fluid that when super cooled becomes a superfluid which defies gravity and can leak through solid glass
J1aD8 TIL drug cartels started making "multicolored rainbow fentanyl" in response to accidental overdoses