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TIL Coke was for white customers only, while Pepsi was marketed to black customers

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pW7Q TIL That having a higher than average IQ can and will be held against you when applying for a job as a Police Officer.
e0RbJ TIL Sherlock Holmes' address, 221B Baker Street, was originally fictional, as Baker Street's numbering didn't go that high. However, street numbers were reallocated in the 1930s, and the building that got Holmes' address had to get a "secretary to Sherlock Holmes" to deal with it.
KYBWB TIL Ted Fujita, meteorology scientist and father of the Fujita tornado scale, had his life saved by the weather. He was in Kokura on the day of the second atomic bombing. Kokura was the first target, which couldn’t be done due to bad weather, they went with the secondary target of Nagasaki.
LkKXr TIL the first Indian medical book "Atharva Veda" includes a fairly detailed germ theory, as it describes a number of pathogens and possible cures for disease. The book was written in 200BC, but it's ideas can be dated back to 1000BC. Germ theory was not proven correct until the 19th Century AD.
NNmJ TIL Paralympic medals from Rio rattle. A different sound depending whether its Bronze, Silver or Gold to help blind athletes