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TIL Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman's son once married Bill's ex-wife's mother, making Bill Wyman stepfather of his former mother in law, as well as stepgrandfather of his former wife

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479o TIL that White Coke was a colorless, unlabeled variant of Coca-Cola developed to look like vodka for Soviet Marshall Zhukov, who was introduced to Coke by Dwight Eisenhower during WWII but did not want to be seen drinking a symbol of American imperialism during the Cold War
pVnZ TIL the copyright for the song “Happy Birthday to You” expires in the EU on December 31st, 2016
g9LX TIL that Charles Muntz, the villian from Up, was named after Charles Mintz. A man who tried to sue Walt Disney over Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
X00nX TIL: In 1793, Diego Marín Aguilera flapped the wings of his man-powered glider, reached a height of about 5m and flew over 300m before crashing because of a broken metal joint. The inhabitants of the town believed him a lunatic, heretic, or a fraud, and burned his "demonic" flapping-wing creation.
newyY TIL that Times Square's most famous building has been largely vacant for decades, and generates virtually all of its revenue from exterior billboards. The interior, once home to the New York Times, is now considered to be too cramped and dilapidated to be rentable.