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TIL that Perrier and one of its major competitors San Pellegrino are both owned by Nestlé.

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KOZ5G TIL about a baseball team that literally played for their lives. An integrated team of death-row inmates was assembled, called The Penitentiary All Stars, played against other local teams in Wyoming, and earned the prison officials money from gambling. Winning earned the team stays of execution.
QNOX TIL that a Great Dane from Cape Town officially enlisted in the Royal Navy during WW2, serving mainly as a morale booster for the troops.
4wl6 TIL The Leader Of The Nazi’s SA Was Openly Gay
8eJPb TIL about wheel-well stowaways, individuals who hide in the landing gear compartments of planes. Between 1947 and 2015, the FAA recorded 113 such attempts, with a staggering 76% fatality rate. Most stowaways were young men, and many remain unidentified.
8aBxK TIL about Clarence Dally, perhaps the first person to die of man-made radiation in 1904. He was an assistant to Thomas Edison on a new x-ray machine. He had to have both of his hands amputated but eventually died from cancer. Edison refused to work with x-rays ever again.