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TIL Sprite was originally Lemon Fanta.

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PYWxL TIL - Victor Lustig, a German con artist, designed and sold a "money box" which he claimed could print $100 bills. A victim, sensing profits, would buy the machine for a high price. Stocked with six to nine genuine $100 bills for demonstration purposes, but after that it produced only blank paper.
LkRg9 TIL Saint Drogo is the patron saint of unattractive people, baristas, the mentally ill, and hernias.
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jNeNM TIL in 2014 an Australian physics professor submitted a paper titled "Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List" to a scientific journal that sent him unsolicited emails. The paper was accepted for publication, but the journal kept emailing him.
GAgJ TIL that China has practiced a form of gift exchange that goes back to the 7th Century where a Panda is given away for the purpose of diplomatic relations. This practice is known as “Panda Diplomacy”.