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TIL: Coca-cola identifies heavy users of its products as anyone who consumes more than 1,000 sodas a year. This represents 20% of total customers. Coke focuses its campaign efforts on these users as it's easier to manipulate them rather than try to get the other 80% to consume more.

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VMKeD TIL that during WW1, a Canadian soldier brought his pet bear to Britain. He named the bear Winnie after his home town Winnipeg an later donated the bear to the London Zoo where a boy named Christopher Robin liked it so much it inspired his father to write about it, thus Winnie the Pooh.
Wm5L TIL that D&D is a very popular game in prisons throughout North America and since dice are not allowed inmates use decks of 20 playing cards to roll
v1o57 Today I Learned that there are ten honorary Harlem Globetrotters, including Nelson Mandela, Whoopi Goldberg, and Pope John Paul II
0o6v TIL Dutch sex ed classes emphasize love, fun, and excitement, while US sex ed classes emphasize the mechanics and dangers
W7Myd TIL that there are birds called "boobies"