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TIL that after the broadcast of a documentary about the secret formula of Coca Cola, the brand cancelled ALL future commercials on French public TV, resulting in a revenue loss of millions of euros

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Wla8 TIL: In WWII, coconut water was temporarily used as IV fluid when saline was in short supply.
nkgr TIL that a woman named Rifca Stanescu became the world’s youngest grandmother at the age of 23. Rifca, from the Romanian town of Investi, was 12 years old when she gave birth to her daughter, Maria. Maria, in turn, had her first child, her son Ion, at age 11.
1aPeX TIL about PanAm 6039, a commercial "flying boat" that went the long way from San Francisco to New York, nearly circumnavigating the globe, in order to get home following the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941
v1V64 TIL Before cars in New York City there were 15000 abandoned horse carcasses removed a year and 3-4 million pounds of horse crap on the streets every day.
DQaRj TIL The iconic "Hollywood" sign was originally meant to be a temporary advertisement for a real estate development called "Hollywoodland," but it became so popular that it was made a permanent landmark.