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TIL that Coca-Cola used to literally, unironically contain cocaine to round off its other main ingredient, caffeine.

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pYRYA TIL about the Muammar Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, which was created by the eponymous dictator to “bestow tribute upon symbolic figures of struggle and faith in the values of freedom to all humans”. The first recipient was Nelson Mandela.
lolGa TIL that there is a company that secretly takes continuous, rapid, high-resolution aerial photos of crime-plagued cities to help police “rewind” time to view a crime as it happens and then to “fast-forward” the movement of suspects to their present locations.
5Zkp TIL flim critic Roger Ebert was quoted saying “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are the meager joys of this film.“
yrAX TIL that in our efforts to make playgrounds safer for children, we are actually stunting their development
WkXoA TIL that Nirvana sabotaged their own show in 1992 in Buenos Aires due to the crowd disrespecting an all-girl band that opened for them. Nirvana continued to play only the 10 seconds of Smells Like Teen Spirit, playing toy drums, butchering solos, and yelling hey for most of Come as you Are.