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TIL Coca Cola supported the apartheid

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0dmVM TIL that as teenagers, Simon and Garfunkel used to refer to themselves as Tom and Jerry
PxjZ TIL after Dave Chappelle walked out on his enormously popular sketch show in the middle of producing Season 3, he told Comedy Central that the only way he would resume production would be to donate half of the proceeds of future DVD sales to charity. The network did not take the deal.
4XdLg TIL in 1984 an 8 year old girl with sickle cell disease developed acute myeloid leukemia. To treat the cancer, the doctors gave her chemo and a stem cell transplant from her sibling. Not only did this cure her cancer, but it cured her SCD too. She remains disease free nearly three decades later.
6EpnX TIL duck boat tours use replica or surplus military DUKW vehicles used for amphibious landings in WW2
d0mK TIL if you search askew in google the browser will tilt sideways.