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TIL that for a short period of time, Pepsi had the 6th largest fleet of submarines in the world thanks to a deal they struck to sell their drink in the USSR.

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G0E4 TIL in 1915 a raisin company executive spotted a teenage girl drying her curly brown hair and wearing her mother’s red bonnet and hired her for a stunt promotion that had her dropping raisins from an airplane. Soon she became the company’s first mascot called, “Sun Maid.”
1gaV TIL that Bill Nye isn’t a physicist. He’s a mechanical engineer!
jG8a TIL in 1943, a former childhood friend of Hitler called Eugen Wasner told an anecdote to his Wehrmacht friends about 9 yr old Hitler trying to pee into a goat’s mouth. The goat then bit his penis, and Hitler ran away crying. Wasner was subsequently sentenced to death.
XE7AX TIL that sea lions hunt Ocean Sunfish for sport, tearing their fins off and tossing the body around, before leaving the still living fish to die on the ocean floor.
ybvw TIL that there is so much heavy metal pollution around the Russian city of Norilsk, mining the surface soil has become economically feasible.