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TIL Coca-cola thinks “no consumer could reasonably be misled into thinking Vitaminwater was a healthy beverage”

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X0Xgj TIL that Comet Swift-Tuttle is the largest comet to make repeated close approaches to Earth. A collision would release 27 times the energy of the impact that caused the extinction of dinosaurs. It has been described as "the single most dangerous object known to humanity".
wLjGW TIL Jamie Farr, the actor who played Section-8 hopeful cross-dresser Corporal Klinger in MASH, was costumed using hand-me-downs from the the 20th Century Fox wardrobe department, including garments originally worn by Betty Grable and Ginger Rogers.
9YXXQ TIL that during peak growing season for the Midwest US corn belt, the region undergoes more photosynthesis activity than anywhere else on the planet-- with levels up to 40% greater than observed in the Amazon.
epw4g TIL that life expectancy in the 1900 was 31–32 (world average)
5YxXr TIL that legendary stand up comedian Lenny Bruce pretended to be gay to get out of service after four invasions in the Pacific in 1945, after 30 months of service. Bruce got his Undesirable Discharge papers 3 weeks after confessing to a navy doctor... He was the inpiration for Crpl. Klinger in MASH.