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TIL that since men associated Diet Coke with women, Coca-Cola created Coke Zero

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9av6 TIL Russia has to bomb their rivers every winter to prevent dangerous flooding caused by ice dams.
R75Qw TIL a boat is considered a ship if it weighs 500 tonnes or more. A more general distinction is that ships can carry boats but boats cannot carry ships.
5m59 TIL RPG clerics wield maces because Bishop Odo of Bayeux was wielding one in the Bayeux Tapestry, allegedly so as not to shed blood.
RNGQ TIL Rosemary Kennedy, sister of JFK, had a lobotomy performed on her at age 23 because she was ‘an embarrassment to the family.’
W76DL TIL that in Tok Pisin, the English-based creole language spoken by millions in Papua New Guinea, the vocabularly is often unrecognizably shifted in meaning from English, for example: "as ples" [ass place -> place of origin], "maus gras" [mouth grass -> moustache], or "belhat" [belly hot -> angry]