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TIL that a transparent variant of Coke was specially manufactured for a Soviet marshal who didn’t want to be seen drinking an American imperialist beverage in public

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Y7ppZ TIL Willem Dafoe actually performed oral sex on Madonna in the movie Body of Evidence.There was no body double.
aXa9 TIL of an area in Ohio called Helltown. It became abandoned in the 1970’s when the US government drove citizens from their homes through eminent domain to form national parks. One poor soul scrawled, “This is how the Indians must have felt” on the wall of his former home.
W7GmN TIL Louis Eppolito, who played Fat Andy in ‘Goodfellas’ and a detective in ‘Lost Highway’ among other roles, was an NYPD detective who led a double life as an associate of the Five Families
XPM8 TIL there is a law named the “Internet Tax Nondiscrimination Act” that bans Internet taxes in the US. It expired on November 1, 2014.
vPGXr TIL on June 29, 2021 the village of Lytton, B.C. set the all-time high temperature in Canada at 121.3°F (49.6°C). The next day, a fire destroyed 90% of the village, killing 2 people.