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TIL Coca-Cola sold for 5 cents for over 60 years

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VKA4 TIL There Is A Mural In Dublin Apologising To Sinead O'Connor For Not Believing Her Accusations Of Church Child Abuse
b9QB9 TIL that hospitals give newborns hats to wear to prevent them losing body heat through their head.
E8mV TIL the record for person who survived the highest fall without parachute was Vesna Vulovic. She was a Yugoslavian stewardess who survived 10,160 meters (33,000 feet) fall after her plane was bombed by Croatian terrorists
D1PND TIL The only Mexican to die on the Titanic was Manuel Uruchurtu Ramírez. A politician who gave up his seat on a rescue boat to woman who wanted to see her child and husband. She had lied to him about her family and survived.
d80v7 TIL About the Lykov family, who isolated themselves in the Russian Taiga to escape religious persecution. They lived in total isolation for 40 years and were unaware that WWII had even happened. One daughter still lives there — at 74 years old.