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TIL that the company that owns Monster Energy also owns Peace Tea. The Monster logo can be found on all cans of Peace Tea.

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XEGNj TIL: There was once a city called Crocodilopolis, where they worshiped the crocodile god Sobek. The people of Crocodilopolis paid devotion to an earthly representative of Sobek, a living crocodile they called Petsuchos and covered in gold and gems and kept in a temple.
16nQV TIL during the 2011 Hackleburg tornado, which was a massive, extremely violent, long-tracked EF5 wedge tornado that lasted for 2.5 hours and killed 72 people, a Corvette was thrown 641 feet (195 meters), and another vehicle from a house nearby was never found again. It just completely disappeared.
rwB1 TIL that the largest stadium in the world, Rŭngnado May First Stadium, is located in Pyongyang, North Korea. In the late 90’s it was used as a venue to publicly burn several army generals that were implicated in an assassination attempt on Kim Jong-Il.
pY9b8 TIL that palm fronds are extremely hardy and are difficult to process into mulch or compost and can take up to 50 years to decompose on their own; the fronds also account for 3.4% of the 1 million tons of waste each year in the Phoenix, AZ landfills.
9Y7K6 TIL that a man decided to deposit a check that he received from a junk mail ad just to see what would happen. to his surprise, they allowed him to deposit the $95,000 check. the bank tried to take the money back, but since he didn’t break any laws, there was nothing they could do.