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TIL the Coca-Cola logo and the Ford logo use the same font, Spencerian script

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l665 TIL that Venezuela is the top winner in the Big Four beauty pageants: Miss World, Miss Universe, Miss International, and Miss Earth, and was the second country after Brazil to win all four.
OGbmX TIL about the Mountain Meadows Massacre of 1857, when Mormons in Utah killed everybody over age 6 in a wagon train from Arkansas & Missouri that was just passing through en route to California
Z8v4 TIL that Jimmy Carter left nuclear launch codes in his suit when it was sent in for dry cleaning
epxKE TIL a South Korean mayor had a ton of trash dumped on a pristine beach in southwest Jindo for International Coastal Cleanup Day so that 600 volunteers could carry out cleaning activities. He later apologized and said the event was meant to raise awareness about the seriousness of coastal waste.
690b7 TIL of John "Jack's Kirby, goalkeeper for Derby County, who was ordered along with his teammates to give a Nazi salute on their 1934 tour of Germany. He refused.