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aw8n9 TIL A stray pitbull staying at a shelter only got adopted because he would roll on his back, tail wagging madly, demanding belly rubs every morning.
N7yaP TIL Breaking Bad was blamed for shocking rise in crystal meth usage throughout europe
J1D8B TIL During WWII Coca-Cola dispatched technical observers, nicknamed Coca Cola Colonels, to the frontlines to set up bottling plants to supply soldiers with their soda. They ended up establishing 64 bottling lines during the war.
1jjD TIL that lobster used to be considered a “poor man’s meal” in the early 1800’s, and it used to be fed to prisoners, apprentices, and slaves.
woOKY TIL of "Historia Piscium," a book about fishes published in 1686 by the Royal Society. The book sold so poorly that the Society reneged on funding Isaac Newton's "Principia". Clerk Edmund Halley funded Principia himself; the Society later paid him with unsold copies of Historia