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TIL Coca-Cola bottling facilities in Mexico never made the switch from glass to plastic bottles. Coca-Cola opened it's first Mexican bottling facility in the 1920's.

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KOe69 TIL National Dollar Day on August 8th commemorates the day Congress established the U.S. monetary system in 1786. In 1862, the United States printed its first dollar bill. It wasn’t George Washington face, The first dollar bill featured Salmon P. Chase, President Lincoln’s Secretary of Treasury.
epjen TIL studies have shown that in over 90% of factitious disorder imposed on another cases (first named Munchausen syndrome by proxy), the abuser is the mother. Fathers not actively involved play a passive role in the abuse by being frequently absent at home & rarely visiting their hospitalized child.
YpNLP TIL British Parliament had an official discussion where they condemned the historical inaccuracies of the film U-571 and the rewriting of history to paint the Americans as heroes in an event they never even took part in. They felt it was unfair on the British sailors that lost their lives.
b9EAN TIL Hitler offered to trade a million Jews for material goods, including 10,000 trucks. The Jews would have been allowed to go to any Allied country except Palestine, as Hitler had promised the Grand Mufti no Jews would settle in Palestine. The offer was rejected.
p8KoZ TIL that Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is one of the few diseases with no cure and a 100% fatality rate. It is the human equivilant of Mad Cow disease and 70% of people with it die within a year. Nobody has lived past 2.5 years after the symptoms set in.