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TIL Coca-Cola is 90% water. Diet Coke is 99% water.

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bkJN TIL that “Ötzi the Iceman” has 19 living relatives in Europe today.
jN0ap TIL that during WW2, a unit of the US Army called the 442nd Battalion(a unit made up almost entirely of Japanese Americans) scaled a <1000 foot cliff in complete darkness to launch a surprise attack on the Germans and break the Gothic Line.
R7r8Q TIL about Frieda Belinfante, a half-Jewish lesbian who lived in Amsterdam during WWII, and disguised herself as a man to avoid being captured and executed by the Nazis. Even though she was wanted for being part of the resistance movement she escaped out of Amsterdam and lived til she was 90.
bpaZ TIL the USA paid $200 billion dollars to cable company’s to provide the US with Fiber internet. They took the money and didn’t do anything with it.
KYVya TIL in the American Civil War, the Union Army used 175,000 lb (80,000 kg) of opium tincture and powder and about 500,000 opium pills