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TIL in 1985, a Coca-Cola employee was fired for being engaged to a Pepsi employee

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wMYY TIL because the NFL owns and enforces the trademark for the term “Super Bowl,” almost all ads and commercial uses will instead reference “The Big Game” or something similar. Colbert even used “The Supurb Owl” in 2014.
DErg TIL the city of Derinkuyu could accommodate 20,000 people and included a school, chapel, stores and more. All that was underground with an amazing system so that the oxygen and water would always be available.
GYRyN TIL that there is an Indian language spoken by 2 million people but can be written by only 100 people.
ylgJ TIL an American psychologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison developed an insane experiment called the “Pit of Despair”, which involved socially isolating young monkeys for up to a year at a time. The monkeys developed psychosis, would cannibalize on their offspring, and also commit suicide
1anYD TIL that for over 100 years, Canada forced many Indigenous children to attend Residential schools away from their families years at a time. The quality of instruction was sub-par, many children were physically, sexually, and mentally abused, and at least 4000 children died in the school system.