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TIL the world’s oldest logo belongs to Stella Artois beer, which despite numerous changes in management since its creation, the original horn logo hasn’t changed in 650 years.

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lJVN TIL that 1 in 10 of the USA’s bridges are rated “structurally deficient” and only 38% of the pavement on roads is in “good” condition. It would take about $85 billion annually to improve US roads and bridges.
ZArD TIL 5000 years ago the Chinese created nail polish and used it to symbolize wealth and power among the elite. It was forbidden among the general population. Reports exist of commoners sentenced to die for wearing it.
78RaL TIL that Calamari are killed via karate chop. They instantly turn white upon death.
R7kml TIL that former US President Lyndon B Johnson wanted to have a jet installed in White House so that water would constantly shoot onto his penis.When told it would be incovenient, he invoked Vietnam War - "If I can move 10,000 troops in a day, you can certainly fix the bathroom any way I want it"
KO04G Protons are made up of even smaller particles called quarks, so you might expect that simply adding up the quarks’ masses should give you the proton’s mass. However, that sum is much too small to explain the proton’s bulk. And new, detailed calculations show that only 9 percent of the proton’s heft comes from the mass of constituent quarks. The rest of the proton’s mass comes from complicated effects occurring inside the particle, researchers report in the Nov. 23 Physical Review Letters.