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TIL that when a man tried suing PepsiCo after allegedly finding a mouse in his Mountain Dew, he lost when a vet testified that if a mouse had been in his Mountain Dew, it would not have been identifiable by the time he opened the can.

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NjRE TIL in 2001 a man wrestled a 7-foot bull shark to retrieve the severed arm of his nephew. After saving the boy the man dived back in, seized the shark and wrestled it to shore where a ranger shot it. The arm was pried from its gullet, put on ice, rushed to the hospital and successfully sewed back on
4k8G6 TIL the largest county or county-equivalent in the United States is the Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area in Alaska which has a total size of 147,842.51 square miles (382,910.3 square kilometers).
7rp8Z TIL Ed McMahon (Johnny Carson's sidekick) was a carrier certified Marine F4U Corsair instructor pilot during WWII and an artillery spotter during the Korean War. He flew a total of 85 combat missions. After the war, he stayed with the Marines as a reserve officer, retiring in 1966 as a colonel.
VMwX8 TIL: The actor who played David Wallace on The Office was actually a full time wealth-management adviser at the time, and considered acting on the TV show a hobby - "this is what I do instead of playing golf"
9YdwM TIL The Harlem Globetrotters played the Minneapolis Lakers (now the L.A. Lakers) in a real basketball game in 1948, and won 61-59. The match helped prove that the NBA should be open to black athletes.