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TIL the Scottish town of Dull has formed a “trinity of tedium” with the towns of Boring (USA) and Bland (Australia)

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b97bQ TIL Coca-Cola was sued by a consumer protection agency for misleading health claims regarding VitaminWater, which contains 33 grams of sugar per bottle. Coca-Cola's defense was that "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking VitaminWater was a healthy beverage.”
aL4N TIL President James Garfield was ambidextrous and fluent in both Latin and Greek, so he would entertain his friends by having them ask him questions and then he would write the answer in Latin with one hand while simultaneously writing the answer in Greek with the other.
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D6Nr TIL that a “knight in shining armor” could be used as a slight since if the amor was shining he was not tested in combat.
MeYp8 TIL an HIV-positive New Zealand man pricked his sleeping wife with a needle tainted with his blood, infecting her with the virus in hopes that she would have sex with him again.