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TIL: Miami Beach has banned beachfront hotels from giving out plastic straws

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m10dv TIL Red Bull’s famous slogan “Red Bull gives you wings” was changed to “Red Bull gives you wiiings” after a $13million lawsuit that accused the company of “fraudulent advertising” because the drink did not give people wings or elevated abilities of any kind.
b6MV4 TIL actress Georgia Tennant is the daughter of the 5th Doctor Who, Peter Davison, and the wife of 10th Doctor Who, David Tennant.
jjwN TIL that in addition to typical aches and pains, Tylenol actually alleviates psychological pain (e.g. social rejection)
GYGJQ TIL that there is a temperature scale called the Rankine scale. It uses the absolute zero as it's 0°, but uses the number scale from Fahrenheit. (Compared to Kelvin, which uses the number scale from Celsius)
d8b1Q TIL of the Flying Fathers, a Canadian ice hockey team made up of priests with a horse as a backup goalie