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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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4XbOJ TIL that babies cry when they are born because they are bruised and sore from the trauma of birth
VXK0 TIL that the “pause symbol” on your remote control is derived from the musical notation called a “Caesura,” which calls for a complete pause in a composition …
NvGb TIL that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was asked at her confirmation hearing where she’d spent the previous Christmas. Her answer: “Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant.”
J1x4 TIL The product of any four consecutive numbers is divisible by 24.
GYdAJ TIL South Korea put a ban on Japanese cultural imports following WWII and wasn't lifted until 1998. But Nintendo found a way around the ban by partnering with Hyundai and rebranding several of their products including the classic NES, which was sold as 'Hyundai Comboy' in the country.