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TIL a can of Coke will sink in water but Diet Coke will float

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vkZR TIL that owners of more costly cars are more likely to disobey the rules of the road. They are three to four times more likely to break the law, and not stop in a pedestrian intersection.
a80oL TIL reproduction via Sex started in Scotland A team of researchers says a fish called Microbrachius dicki is the first-known animal to stop reproducing by spawning and instead mate by having sex. The primitive bony fish, lived in ancient lakes about 385 million years ago in what is now Scotland
VjEZ TIL of the Marmite Crisis (Marmageddon) of 2012-13 in New Zealand. After a cooling tower at the only factory broke down, Marmite was dubbed “Black Gold”. Value of jars increased to over NZ$800 on auction sites.
Awgo TIL The only known armed German military operation on North American soil in WW2 was the installation of a covert weather station in northern Canada. It was not discovered until 1977.
kPDB TIL that there is no evidence to support students potentially being a “visual learner” vs “auditory learner”