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TIL Mexico Is the Fattest Country in the World Surpassing United States

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549Q TIL that Coca Cola had tried to sell bottled water at a premium price which happened to be tap water taken from the mains
kOJNE TIL In 1979 a stadium hosted Disco Demolition Night. Cost was ¢99 if you brought a disco record. 50,000 people showed up to see them blow up the records in between games. Thousands rushed the field in a frenzy. This is referred to as “The Night Disco Died” and is linked to the decline of the genre
WkyG9 TIL Ed Sheeran has a very short attention span, so his producer Johnny McDaid would bring a suitcase full of Lego for Ed to play with while he would mix tracks.
r1OW TIL that before the interstate highway system was established, it took a military convoy 62 days to cross the United States from coast to coast.
7JKP TIL that the idiom “the cat’s out of the bag” is derived from a practice by some merchants who sold piglets in bags. If the buyer was distracted, the merchant would quickly switch the piglet w/ a cat. The buyer wouldn’t realize until they got home and let the cat, and not a piglet, out of the bag.