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TIL you have to run 4+ miles (6.8kms) to burn off the calories from a single can of Coke

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4vbw TIL that the entire Pink Floyd Album “Wish you were here” was written in tribute to Lead Singer and Song writer Syd Barrett after he departed the band due to “declining mental health”
gr5EW TIL - In 1853, Elizabeth Jones built a 7,690sq-ft mansion (dubbed Wyndcliffe) in affluent Rhinebeck, NY, overlooking the Hudson River. The unusually impressive house prompted wealthy neighbors to expand & remodel their own homes, to "keep up with the Joneses” - giving birth to the common saying.
BWOy TIL in 1985 a New Orleans man drowned at pool party attended by 100 lifeguards celebrating a summer with no drownings!
neJLb TIL that during the Great Depression, the Hershey Company marketed Mr. Goodbar as a "tasty lunch" because the peanuts it contained provided added nutritional value. During the 1950s and '60s it was marketed as an "quick energy" bar.
l1WN TIL a former lawyer, Jack Thompson. Was barred and fined $100,000 for numerously linking the Grand Theft Auto series to crimes with very little or no evidence at all.