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OoYK7 TIL The second man to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, Bobby Leach, survived the fall but later died as a result of slipping on a piece of orange peel.
yQBnl TIL about Caño Cristales which is often called “the river of five colours” or the “liquid rainbow”, and according to local legend, it escaped paradise to flow through the Earth.
xVj67 TIL in 1982 the people of Greenland voted to leave the European Union which they did in 1985 and are still today not part of it.
5d1p TIL Tropicana OJ is owned by Pepsico and Simply Orange by Coca Cola. They strip the juice of oxygen for better storage, which strips the flavor. They then hire flavor and fragrance companies, who also formulate perfumes for Dior, to engineer flavor packs to add to the juice to make it “fresh.”
oaAo TIL the movie “The Taming of the Shrew” had a tagline that read “"A motion picture for every man who ever gave the back of his hand to his beloved… and for every woman who deserved it.”