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

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KxbR TIL that a census of the world’s tigers in 2016 showed an increase in the estimated number of wild tigers for the first time in a century
KLOJ TIL Harriet Tubman threatened death to escaping slaves if they wanted to turn back. “If he was weak enough to give out, he’d be weak enough to betray us all, and all who had helped us; and do you think I’d let so many die just for one coward man.”
VBYY4 TIL That part of the CIA's Memorial Wall is the Book of Honor which identifies agents who have died in the field. However, as of 2021, 37 of the 137 entries in the book have no names as the identities remain classified even decades later.