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TIL Coca-Cola approved the use of their famous polar bear ad in the film Natural Born Killers without knowing what it was about, and were furious when they found out

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v6aj TIL the U.S. sells more weapons to Pakistan than it sells to Britain or South Korea
loM5 TIL there is actually a species of genetically modified pig called “Enviropig”
v1AMr TIL that Wayne’s World was directed by a woman, Penelope Spheeris, who also directed Black Sheep, Little Rascals, and music videos for Megadeth. She won a Grammy for her extended “Bohemian Rhapsody” sequence from Wayne’s World.
1DBd TIL that a newspaper posted a poll asking readers if watching Blackfish – a documentary critical of SeaWorld for keeping orcas captive – changed their opinions of SeaWorld. The results were “No.” It was later revealed that 55% of the votes came from a single IP-address … hosted by SeaWorld
P1W7n TIL that although the Rhodesian Government eventually lost the Bush War, they killed 10,000 of Robert Mugabe’s forces while only losing 1,361 of their own.