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TIL the Swedish soft drink Julmust is so popular during the holidays that the it often causes Coca-Cola consumption to drop by 50%

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egkn TIL Nicholas Saunderson (1683-1739) lost his eyes to smallpox before he was a year old, yet he taught himself to read by tracing the letters on gravestones and learned languages and mathematics by pricking holes in paper. He became the fourth professor of Mathematics at Cambridge.
Me1JV TIL Don LaFontaine, the guy that did basically all the movie trailer voiceovers in the 90s/00s, got into it by accident and actually ran his own production company once. He got so busy and made so much money doing trailers he left a prestigious Paramount position to take up voiceovers full time.
kp0d TIL that a colony of mammoths survived the demise of the rest of their species by 6000 years on an isolated Siberian island.
OQlR TIL A company called Pro-Teq has created a solution that makes pavement glow in the dark. It is environmentally friendly and could save a lot of money.
Z8XJD TIL a dress was equipped with sensors to monitor how many times women were grabbed and touched at a night club without consent. The women actively asked not to be touched and moved away from men. The data showed they were touched nonconsensually 157 times in less than four hours.