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TIL American Coca Cola tastes different to International Coca Cola

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4kPN TIL that Will Smith was offered the role of Superman/Clark Kent but declined, saying: “You mess up white peoples’ heroes in Hollywood, you’ll never work in this town again!”
M70R0 TIL the Walt Disney Company neither owns nor operates Tokyo Disneyland
gMb59 TIL: Around 150 years before bimetallic Euro coins appeared, some bimetallic coins circulated in England. In J. Moore's 1840s privately-made "one penny model," proposed replacements for large copper pennies, a copper donut held a pea-sized silvery Queen Victoria disc. Some shopkeepers accepted them.
9w557 TIL most animals can see UV light — humans being blind to it is the exception not the rule.
p8NOe TIL the longest car in the world was 100 feet long, had 26 wheels, a jacuzzi, diving board, king-sized water bed, and a helicopter landing pad, and was called the ‘American Dream’.