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TIL that squids and octopuses don't have blind spots
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TIL between 1922 and 1933, The Coca-Cola Company was offered the opportunity to purchase the Pepsi-Cola company three times. It declined on each occasion.
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TIL that the script for Gladiator 2 had Russel Crowe’s Maximus meddling with Roman gods in the afterlife, being reincarnated, defending early Christians,ultimately living forever, leading tanks in the second world war and even mucking around in the modern-day Pentagon..(but, it was rejected)
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TIL notorious criminal John Dillinger served a stint as a sailor aboard the battleship USS Utah, which long after he left the service, was destroyed during the attack on Pearl Harbor. She still rests in the Harbor today as a lesser known memorial compared to the USS Arizona.
JYRK8
TIL Dolly Parton's father never learned to read, so 22 years ago she started a program to mail free books to young children. That program now sends out over 1.1 million books per month and is closing in on 100 million books total
0BG5
TIL the man that shot the attacker at Canadian Parliament in 2014, Sgt-At-Arms Kevin Vickers, did so by diving through a doorway, flipping around to face upwards, and firing at the shooter while still in mid-air. He is reported to have said “I put him down”.