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TIL that Coca-Cola once printed “You Retard” on Vitamin Water bottlecaps

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98yD TIL a woman from Texas won multimillion lotteries 4 times. The “luckiest woman in the world” is a former math professor who holds a PhD from Stanford.
RLYl TIL the Scottish town of Dull has formed a “trinity of tedium” with the towns of Boring (USA) and Bland (Australia)
pYy1N TIL Jalapeño peppers are generally less spicy today than they were 20 years ago due to crossbreeding with a specific breed of Jalapeño that Texas A&M scientists created which has a consistently lower spice while also being hardier and quicker to grow.
a7v0 TIL that in Saudia Arabia a wife is entitled to divorce her husband if he does not supply her with fresh coffee.
N1kJ TIL that people tend to significantly overestimate how noticeable their embarrassing behaviors are to others, due to a cognitive bias known as the Spotlight Effect.