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TIL that Coca-Cola played a major role in getting King & Spalding, a powerful Atlanta law firm, to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act by threatening to change firms.

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lkZa TIL Mary (mother of Jesus) is considered one of the greatest women in Islam, and is mentioned more in the Quran than in the New testament.
8epaG TIL "Cute aggression" or the urge to squeeze cute animals or babies is the brain’s coping mechanism to temper the onslaught of positive feelings. Because if you find yourself incapacitated by how cute a baby is—so much so that you simply can't take care of it—that baby is going to starve.
XROE TIL it is illegal to film in Devetashka Cave ever since the Expendables 2 film caused the death/relocation of nearly 25,000 bats. 13 species included were considered to be endangered.
j647p TIL cazu martzu is a cheese that has living maggots in it. If you don't chew enough the maggots can be your intestines. It is banned for obvious reasons but the demand for the maggot cheese is so large there is a black market that brings in 2-3 million euros annually
78kNb TIL of Shelley Jackson’s Skin Project. Each single word of her 2095 word novella is tattooed on a separate volunteer.