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TIL That Coca-Cola ran a program called H2NO - A campaign to teach waiters how to get customers to say “No” to H20

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nlj9 TIL domestic cats stop meowing to communicate with other cats upon reaching adulthood, and only meow to communicate to their human
lorG5 TiL Thomas Edison launched a smear campaign in the early 1900s to discredit Alternating Current as it opposed Direct Current which he developed. He even went as far as electrocuting animals and a human, through the first ever electric chair.
4XYMX TIL: Many scientists believe that the biggest difference between us and chimpanzees is not our logical intelligence, but our social intelligence and our drive to socialize with other people.
M4K TIL the only man to win both the Decathlon and the Pentathlon was of native American descent and had his medals removed as he played professional sport (just like most Olympians at the time)
wLXrJ TIL that during the 80 Years War the Dutch defeated the invading Spanish by flooding their cities and farm lands. When winter arrived, Dutch soldiers used ice skates to quickly advance, fire muskets and retreat quickly to reload. The Spanish were then lured to, and fell through, thin ice.