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TIL: Mountain Dew was originally created to be a whiskey mixer.

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01oA TIL Wal-Mart employees across the country are planning to strike on Black Friday in what may be the biggest push for equitable wages that Wal-Mart has ever seen. Someofus.org is gathering donations to buy the employees grocery gift cards so they can still feed their families.
l7x97 TIL Most “recycled” plastic ends up in landfills.
gM8W9 TIL Uber paid hackers $100,000 to cover up a data breach affecting 57 million customers and drivers
R7VZ7 TIL that while filming Armageddon, Ben Affleck asked director Michael Bay, why it was easier to train oil drillers to become astronauts than it was to train astronauts to become oil drillers, and was told to shut the fuck up.
4kdO5 TIL: That the Nazi rallying call "Sieg Heil" was inspired by American football cheerleading techniques. Imported by his friend Ernst Hanfstaengl, Adolf Hitler was so impressed by the rousing qualities inherent at American sporting events, that he would seek to emulate the atmosphere at his rallies.