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TIL There are no dinosaur bones in the Grand Canyon

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kW0B TIL Coca-Cola Deutschland created Fanta as a result of difficulties importing Coca-Cola syrup into Nazi Germany during World War II due to a trade embargo, to create a new product for the German market, using only ingredients available in Germany at the time
ko14 TIL that Reddit is the 135th most visited site in the world and Imgur is the 91st
x6rAk TIL the original version of Ding-Dong The Witch Is Dead reached number one on iTunes in the UK upon Margaret Thatcher‘s passing.
5YM7k TIL about Jane X. Lee who, as a graduate student, discovered the Kuipler asteroid belt, together with David C. Jewitt, whom she asked for material for her PhD project and thus began the search.
Mek9K TIL of ancient Egyptian king Psamtik's experiment to discover the origin of human language. He forbade anyone to speak to two infants. Their gibberish sounded like Phrygian, which Psamtik concluded to be the origin of language. Phrygian emerged in the 8th century BC;2000 years after ancient Egyptian