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TIL that the type of music you listen to can change how you think.

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wL6DJ TIL that food companies learned from the 1990 Perrier Water debacle how not to do a recall after discovering product contamination.
6ERM8 TIL The Glorious Revolution, was the November 1688 deposition and replacement of James II and VII as ruler of England, Scotland and Ireland by his daughter Mary II and his Dutch nephew and Mary's husband, William III of Orange. This was also when gin (jenever) was introduced in England.
4kg6J TIL, President Eisenhower named Camp David after his father and grandson.
9Ylg6 TIL Water has been America's #1 drink since 2013. Before that for 20 years it was soda.
o1rW TIL when Oprah gave the audience cars back in 2004, they were not really free. They had to pay about $6,000 in federal and income taxes. Some people paid the taxes by taking out car loans; others traded their new Pontiacs for cheaper, less souped-up cars.