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TIL that in 1993 Pepsi ran a contest in the Philippines in which it promised 1 million pesos, roughly $40,000, to the person who found the number 349 inside his bottle cap. Pepsi went on to mistakenly print 800,000 winning caps, leading to outrage and death threats to Pepsi executives.

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woX8W TIL that around the globe, no country produces more electricity than China. At nearly eight million gigawatt-hours of electricity annually (7,779,100 GWh), China leads the rest of the world by quite a large margin, nearly double the amount of the second-ranked United States (4,286,600 GWh).
JYx8V TIL that the mine car sequence in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom was originally to have appeared in Raiders of the Lost Ark, after the Ark is opened, and would have showed Indy and Marion loading the Ark on a mine car to escape with the rest of the Nazis in pursuit.
XAWP TIL during WWII, the first Conscientious Objector to win the Medal of Honor was a man named Desmond Doss. He refused to carry a weapon into battle, instead earning the medal for saving dozens of men under direct fire, even after being badly wounded himself.
mxAWy TIL a study of newly-wed couples found that women are happier with ugly men, including improved committment and better sexual performance.
j6e0E TIL Hummingbirds have an exceptional memory due to an enlarged hippocampus. This allows them to remember the exact location of specific hummingbird feeders along their migration path from North America to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central America.