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TIL that drinking Coca-Cola is prescribed as an effective treatment for certain types of bowel obstructions

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PYXEg TIL that the last weekend of Saturday morning cartoons in America was aired on October 4th, 2014. The CW aired its last segment of "The Vortexx" and replaced it with a 5-hour block of educational programming called "One Magnificent Morning"
PoMJ TIL that airplane pilots would announce that Jonas Salk was on board and passengers would burst into applause. Hotels routinely would upgrade him into their penthouse suites.
neXl9 TIL The title character of Edward Bulwer-Lytton‘s 1828 novel Pelham, dandy aristocrat Henry Pelham, wore only black evening wear. The novel’s popularity resulted in black becoming the real life standard color for men’s evening formal wear, which it still is nearly 200 years later.
E15bV TIL That Soviet TV sets were so faulty and defective, that they would occasionally explode and start house fires which would sometimes kill Soviet citizens
oBwvA TIL There was an agreement drafted 2006 that would alter the Electoral College to reflect a popular vote like system. It requires 51% of states to adopt it to be enacted and is currently at 36%.