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TIL Billionaire Peter B. Lewis, chairman of Progressive Insurance, has donated over $2.3 million towards marijuana legalization

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8Om4 TIL a container of 4.8 million legos was knocked into the Atlantic 19 yrs ago. People are still finding them.
OdBa TIL a study found that hot chocolate tastes best when drinking it from an orange cup.
pQke TIL Men were the first to wear high heels around the 1600s. Women began wearing them to look more masculine.
YWEW TIL that in a 2002 Pepsi contest in Novosibirsk, Russia, someone who bought a bottle of Pepsi could win a car if they picked the right key from a set of choices. However, when a man was able to open it, Pepsi sued him since they made the contest impossible by not having the right key as a selection.
QXok TIL that, when Charles DeGaulle ordered the removal of U.S. Troops from France in 1966, Secretary of State Dean Rusk asked if that included the 60,000+ American Soldiers buried there from the first two world wars. An embarrassed DeGaulle never clarified the point. (Happy Memorial Day)