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

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6ExNw TIL there was an unmade Seinfeld episode called The Bet. Its plot was Elaine buying a gun for protection but the cast and director hated it saying "guns aren't funny". It was the ninth episode put into production before being abandoned.
xVJxw TIL of Usama ibn Munqidh, a Syrian poet and diplomat whose life coincided with the First and Second Crusades, and who became acquainted with leaders of the Crusader states, the Knights Templar even clearing their HQ chapel for him to pray towards Mecca.
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Mejy0 TIL it is not difficult to get a flag that flew over the US Capitol- Workers raise about 200 to 500 flags a day on the three designated poles for about 30 seconds each to fly over 100,000 flags a year. 10,000 were flown on July 4, 1976, alone for the US Bicentennial.
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