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TIL In many countries the Tic Tac box is colored according to the flavor and the Tic Tacs themselves are white

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8elbL TIL: the 1st mobile phone call was made by the inventor Martin Cooper on April 3, 1973 to troll his competitor at AT&T. His message? "Joel, this is Marty. I'm calling you from a cellphone, a real, handheld, portable cellphone,"
oBj78 TIL During the French Revolution the traditional court cards were replaced with Liberties, Equalities and Fraternities.
l4eA TIL A 2011 survey showed that 42% of people would not want to know if a loved-one was experiencing depression, and 23% believed that depression is a ‘state of mind’, not an illness.
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