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TIL: In Seattle Washington there is a ghost coke machine still in use that no one has ever seen filled but always has pop and the price has gone up from 55 cents to 75 cents over the years

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WkOJL TIL in 2002, Tropicana aired a half-hour orange juice infomercial called "Breakfast Americana" on Lifetime, A&E, TLC and Discovery Channel. When it also aired on local CBS affiliates, some major markets drew higher ratings than NBA basketball and 'Everybody Loves Raymond'.
GYg9E TIL: Benjamin Franklin was the originator of raising taxes to pay for lower income families to do public service for a wage. City sweepers were the original public service job of the 1700s.
kZ1m TIL that The North Face clothing company sued a clothing company called The South Butt.
4XmEo TIL the NASA Saturn V program (rocket for moon landings) cost $34.4B in 2018 dollars over its life. That's compared to the total 2020 NASA budget of $22.6B
0Kr1 TIL the Old Testament alludes the existence of multiple gods, a practice called henotheism in which Yahweh (the supreme God) rules over lesser subordinate gods (Satan, Bethel, Chemosh, etc…)