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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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8Bd8 TIL engineers that worked on the Lockheed SR-71 “Blackbird” aircraft couldn’t come up with a proper fuel sealing system that could handle the thermal expansion of the airframe at extreme temperatures, so the aircraft would leak jet fuel on the runway.
XEdbX TIL between the 1840's and 1940's there was an idea that couples did better to sleep in separate beds. People thought if couples slept together the sleeper who was weaker in some way (such as older) would absorb vitality from the sleeper who was stronger in some way
d80gd TIL that deaf infants, and those born to deaf parents, “babble” using their hands during the language-acquisition period.
JYJv8 TIL: Smithfield Foods, a farming company who owns over 500 farms across the US was sold to China in 2013
mDRy TIL Eminem was so severely bullied in public school that his mother sued the local school board for “failing to sufficiently protect her child”