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TIL Coke was sued for the "unwarranted health claims" on their product Vitamin water. Coke's defense was "no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking vitamin water was a healthy beverage."

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5Y40P TIL John Capenter's "The Thing" was the first movie in a Trilogy by Carpenter named "The Apocalypse Trilogy" all set in the same universe beginning with 'The Thing', followed by 'Prince of Darkness' and ending with 'In the Mouth of Madness'.
QJMv6 TIL the oldest person who ever lived (122 years) smoked cigarettes from age 21 (1896) to 117 (1992).
w4Vo TIL: Extinguishing macho culture on oil rigs resulted in a company’s accident rate declining by 84%, while productivity, efficiency, and reliability increased beyond the industry’s previous benchmark
x6Xy7 TIL while the fear that technological unemployment inevitably generates structural unemployment is known as the ‘Luddite Fallacy’, the Luddites themselves were actually put out of their jobs by new tech, and were brutally crushed when they revolted
aw4AZ TIL that a Ukrainian woman named Mariya oktyabrskaya sold all her possessions so she could donate a tank to help with the war and requested to drive so she could kill Nazis after her husband died fighting in the war.she was promoted to sergeant and awarded a bravery during combat award