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TIL Mother Teresa encouraged members of her order to secretly baptise dying patients, many of whom were Hindus and Muslims

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Oo5d1 TIL: During the time of the Great Depression, a banker convinced struggling families in Quincy, Florida to buy Coca-Cola shares which traded at $19. Later, the town became the single richest town per capita in the US with at least 67 millionaires.
R7R44 TIL during the 2012 London Olympic NBC aired a promo for the Today Show congratulating Missy Franklin on winning the gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke minutes before the network aired the time-delayed footage of the event.
NvPN TIL Bing Crosby used to whip his children for being overweight, and two of them committed suicide
KOVVJ TIL that Nazi soldiers would regularly take a type of crystal meth called Pervitin, which was considered a "superdrug," to enhance performance, reduce fatigue and drain them of their empathy, effectively turning them into "ruthless killing machines."
ly5G TIL that there’s a Japanese expression for the sudden urge to defecate when stepping into a bookstore, “the Mariko Aoki phenomenon”