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TIL: There's more caffeine in diet cola than regular cola.

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gMZab TIL: A group of 45 men were ejected from a Detroit Tigers game for being dressed as Magnum PI, smoking cigars, and cat-calling women.
6QPX TIL that U.S. schoolchildren used to say the Pledge of Allegiance using the “Bellamy salute” (more recognizably the salute used by Hitler and the Nazis). In order to prevent further confusion or controversy, US Congress instituted the hand-over-the-heart gesture.
L9E9 TIL Starting in September 2016, the Italian government is giving every 18-year old citizen a cultural allowance of $500 euros ($563 dollars). This money is to be spent on culture, from concert tickets, books and museum admission to other qualifying events.
6EB98 TIL the Romans used wax tablets called tabula for writing notes, which was erased by heating the wax and then smoothing it. This was termed 'tabula rasa' from which came the philosophical concept of 'clean slate'.
LkDNV TIL that Gaelic monks from Ireland may have settled in Iceland as long as a century before the Vikings settled there in 874.