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TIL Dr. Pepper is produced by Keurig in the US, Coca Cola in Europe and South Korea, and Pepsi Co. in Canada and Oceania.

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8a08X TIL about Kalavati Devi, an Indian mason who was disgusted by people defecating in the streets of Kanpur and has built 4,000 public toilets so that people would not be subjected to a "living hell" regarding cleanliness, especially for women and children.
xV97w TIL that "a moron in a hurry" is a legal test for trademark infringement in which two trade marks are considered to be different enough from each other to coexist if only a moron in a hurry would confuse them. This test has been applied in cases in the United Kingdom, United States and Canada.
vPXa8 TIL on Nov 13, 1946, NY, pilot Curtis Talbot and scientist Dr. Vincent Schaefer, working for GE Research, released three pounds of dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide) into the clouds at 14,000 ft. They looked back to see long streamers of snow. They had created the world’s first human-made snowstorm.
5YOGn TIL in 1969, Fred Hampton and Mark Clark, two heads of the Black Panther Party, were killed in their sleep by Chicago Police. It was described as a gunfight, but 99% of bullets were found to have been shot from the police, & fake bullet holes from the inside were found to have been planted by police
pXk4 TIL of malariotherapy. The treatment consisted of injecting patients who had developed psychosis as a result of late-stage syphilis with blood from soldiers with malaria. It actually worked and won the Nobel Prize in 1927.