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TIL Tropicana OJ sales plunged 20% when they changed their logo.

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4jZN TIL that Anchorage, Alaska is roughly equidistant from New York, Tokyo, and Berlin and can reach 90% of the industrialized world by air in 9.5 hours or less. As such, its airport is the third busiest cargo hub in the world.
6EJkX TIL a study found that Ellen DeGeneres and Kim Kardashian rank among the highest for fake followers on social media, nearly 50%.
xVGe0 TIL India banned jury trials after a Naval officer murdered his wife’s lover and a combination of sympathy for the wronged husband and a concerted media campaign to paint him as such resulted in the jury acquitting him.
QJ1r6 TIL that after the Salem Witch Trials, the town realised that they had made a mistake and compensated the families of the people they had convicted. More than 200 people had been accused of witchcraft, and 20 of them had been executed.
LmPV TIL that there is a place in outback Australia where New Year’s Eve occurs thrice every year due to the intersection of 3 timezones.