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TIL that Coca Cola has a caffeine free variant

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YV9W TIL Women receive 60% less jail time than men for the same crime.
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JW1V TIL Daisy from The Great Gatsby is based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s girlfriend, Ginevra King. She broke up with him saying “Poor boys shouldn’t think of marrying rich girls”. The last time they met she asked if someone in Gatsby was based on her. Fitzgerald replied “Which bitch do you think you are?”
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QJmmL TIL that during the Soviet imposed agricultural collectivization of 1932-33, an estimated 5.7-8.7 million people died from starvation, the vast majority of which were from Ukraine (4-7 million). This led to the event being called the Holodomor, which means “to kill by starvation.”