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TIL Anne Frank’s father Otto earned 2 Iron Crosses fighting at the Somme and Cambrai in WW1 before surviving Auschwitz

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gGjD TIL, in order to ensure Kendrick Lamar didn’t have a ghostwriter Eminem kicked everyone out of the studio and made him write a verse on the spot
d5rE TIL The the power symbol found on every power switch is actually a 1 and 0. The English words On and Off were replaced by the universal numeral symbols 1 and 0 to bypass any possible language barriers as technology became more ubiquitous.
VKYG TIL Coca Cola switches back to cane sugar from corn syrup during Passover.
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e0dV6 TIL, that Coke was the first soft drink to be consumed in Space when astronauts aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger tested the “Coca-Cola Space Can” on July 12, 1985. The Coca-Cola Company also installed the 'Space Dispenser' on the Space Shuttle Discovery, which was first Space soft drink equipment