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TIL McDonalds had the support of Coca Cola’s investment in 1955 when it started. Now McDonald’s is Coke’s largest restaurant customer and the two companies maintain a unique, symbiotic relationship

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8NRZ TIL that the Mars candy company firmly refuses to market to children under 12. Here is their “marketing code.”
96jX TIL it’s said that when Napoleon claimed to have the power to destroy the Catholic Church, a cardinal responded, “Your majesty, we, the Catholic clergy, have done our best to destroy the church for the last 1,800 years. We have not succeeded, and neither will you.”
WjB8 TIL dinosaurs were already extinct, but 10,000 years ago American population faced the Glyptodon, a badass giant armadillo the same size and weight as a Volkswagen Beetle
bMap TIL F. Scott Fitzgerald only received $13 in royalties from ‘The Great Gatsby’ during his lifetime.
X5Wj TIL that an Enterprise-like ocean research vessel is being built, headed by Jean-Loup Chretien and Jacques Piccard