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TIL diners started using orange handle coffee pots for decaf because the colour orange was associated with the orange coloured label on Sanka, a once popular brand of instant decaf coffee.

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VR8D TIL that the battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War was lost… Due to Tootsie Rolls. A codereader mistook the code for mortar shells (“snacks”, they were called), and literally sent hundreds of crates of Tootsie Rolls to the marines who were out of mortar rounds.
8a6d4 TIL that there is an exact replica of Stonehenge made entirely out of cars putting Alliance, Nebraska on the map, aptly called Carhenge
4Wa5 TIL that lemmings committing mass suicide is a myth that was perpetuated by Disney knowingly
16vo7 TIL that in 1996 a woman by the name of Georgiana Doerschuck ran for President. Her entire campaign platform was on banning computers. She received a measly 140 votes in the New Hampshire Primary.
rREYM TIL a British engineer won £1.5 million from a £2 bet. He correctly picked 6 winners in a running jackpot and bet on a horse that had lost 28 races.