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TIL there’s an open source brand of cola that’s under the GNU Public License and has been through several revisions.

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vP5EL TIL that in 1972 Scottish professional football club Dundee United played a series of friendly games in Nigeria in which they only managed to win one of them. The club's performances shocked the locals so much that "Dundee United" or just "Dundee" is now used as slang to mean "idiot" in Nigeria
8aDpX TIL of the silver mines of Potosi or the ‘Mountain that eats men’. At one point it produced 60% of the worlds silver. The silver funded Spain’s wars and caused an economic crisis in China in the 16th Century
e04L4 TIL that Nebraska's official state slogan is "Nebraska: Honestly, it’s not for everyone."
Z8DkY TIL that in Michelangelo’s famous painting “The Creation of Adam”, there is an anatomically correct image of the human brain behind God, with his right arm extending to the prefrontal cortex, the most “human” part of the brain.
M8N0 TIL the Church of Satan doesn’t worship Satan. In fact they don’t believe in the existence of Satan or any other Supernatural beings.