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TIL that the main ingredient of Mountain Dew, after carbonated water and corn syrup, is concentrated orange juice.

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d6ed TIL studies have shown that dry counties have higher drunk driving fatalities than wet counties. Researchers believe that dry county residents will go to neighboring wet counties, get intoxicated, then have to drive back further while drunk.
JYgrV TIL that BMW released an ad on April 1st 2015 saying that they would give away a brand new BMW in exchange for any old car. Suspecting it to be another April Fools prank, no one showed up except one woman. She came in with her 15 year old station wagon and walked off with a £25000 BMW.
vP4MR TIL Fred Durst directed a movie starring John Travolta and Devon Sawa that only made $4,000 at the box office
69gl8 TIL new world vultures have bacteria on their plumage that is unknown to science.
JBRl TIL John McCain put forward a bill (later overturned by Citizen’s United) that planned to take money out of politics