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TIL Mountain Dew was originally a mixer to Bourbon.

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a81G0 TIL that the Terrible's gas station / convenience store chain, a fixture in California, Nevada, and Arizona, was so named for its founder and original owner Edward R. "Terrible" Herbst. Herbst was often called "terrible" by his business rivals, and decided to use his label as a marketing gimmick.
B70D TIL Sochi, Russia, home to the 2014 Winter Olympics, is considered the country’s largest resort city, with a “subtropical climate” and “warm to hot summers and mild winters”
j6B5M TIL that Genghis Khan slaughtered so many people that it lowered the carbon dioxide level
w5KY TIL the movie “Blazing Saddles” was the first film from a major studio to have a fart joke.
N74DE TIL people are more likely to cheat on their spouse when they are on a diet due to willpower being an exhaustible mental resource.