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TIL that Bolivia makes a soft drink called 'Coca Colla' which is made with real coca leaf. It is a local competitor of Coca-Cola and Red Bull, but is currently illegal to export under both Bolivian and U.N. drug laws

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7ro8P TIL famed 'The Great Gatsby' Author F. Scott Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton to join the Army, where he was trained by Dwight D. Eisenhower almost 30 years before he led the allied powers to victory in WWII. Fitzgerald reportedly 'intensely disliked' Eisenhower.
GAXLE TIL that in the early 1960s, Texas AM radio station KXOL in Fort Worth had among its staff future comedian George Carlin, future CBS reporter Bob Schieffer, and future Price is Right announcer Rod Roddy.
4kddo TIL a group of parents sued the San Francisco Unified School District to allow middle school students to take accelerated math classes again.
wKeE TIL that diamonds are not rare. They are only expensive because of controlled releases by the industrie.
QQME TIL In 1998, a 17 years old worked in the mail room at Interscope Records. One day on his own, he slipped a CD from an unsigned artist into Jimmy Iovine’s listening bag that he used to take home every Friday. And Jimmy actually listened to it, and said “Whoa whoa whoa. What is this?” It was Eminem