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TIL Dr Pepper Was Once a Warm Drink

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xZO7 TIL that there is not much science backing the idea that salt is bad for you.
nVnP TIL To this day you still cannot become king or queen of England if you are or ever been a Roman Catholic
5Yl98 TIL in 1901, the Wright brothers built their own wind tunnel out of wood, old hacksaw blades and bicycle spokes; using it to test more than 200 wing shapes hand made from pieces of sheet steel and wax. The data it generated was critical to their first powered flight two years later.
gr91b TIL that the original video for the Village People's YMCA did not have the iconic hand dance spelling out "YMCA." The dance was invented on Dick Clark's American Bandstand. The original did have a gesture that looked like a Y at the appropriate place.
6EG48 TIL After a stable boy misspelled the name of a thoroughbred Potatoes, the horse was named Potoooooooo, or Pot-8-Os. In 27 years Potoooooooo won 30 races and sired 5 winners.