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TIL the blue star symbol on elevators is known as the Star of Life, and means that elevator is big enough to hold a stretcher

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dDvJj TIL when Mentos makers saw a chemistry teacher create a soda geyser several feet high by dropping Mentos into Diet Coke on the Late Show. They devised a consumer misuse campaign encouraging user-generated videos and signing content creators to create a trend that acheive a 20% sales spike.
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rN1Be TIL in 1985, David Lewis Rice tortured Charles Goldmark to get a list of "Communist operatives" and then murdered the entire Goldmark family, acting on rumors he heard accusing Goldmark's father John to have been a Jewish Communist agent
m1NXE TIL from 1948 to 1952, future West German Chancellor Willy Brandt was a paid informant on the U.S. Counterintelligence Corps, providing reports on the situation in East Germany.
yQnna TIL in the 1920s, Jordanian poet Mustafa Wahbi Tal was once arrested for displaying Bolshevik symbols, , becoming inebriated in a public bar and publicly reciting a poem that insulted the Emir, the Prime Minister, and the law