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TIL Coca Cola released Tab Clear, an intentionally horrible Cola to ruin the brand image of Pepsi’s Crystal Pepsi.

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9E7D TIL French preschools serve four-course lunches (including a cheese course) to educate them in taste and stimulate their senses
pv7G TIL That Adolf Hitler was a serial prankster and would often perform callous pranks on his staff, one which ended with close friend Ernst Hanfstaengl beleiving he was being set up on a suicide mission leading him to escape to Switzerland where he betrayed some of Hitler’s most intimate secrets
Ekr7 TIL the suicide count at the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco was officially stopped at 997 “to prevent record breakers”
Q0wX TIL that in 2011 a tiny Spanish town on the brink of financial ruin bet on the world’s biggest lottery, and won.
Md10 TIL a Malaphor is an informal term for a mixture of two aphorisms, idioms, or clichés (such as “We’ll burn that bridge when we come to it”).