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TIL the set of English alphabets used to be made up of 27 letters with '&' after 'Z'

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ZJnB TIL Coke created Tab Clear as a “kamikaze” product solely to confuse consumers and kill sales of Crystal Pepsi. Within months Coke succeeded and both products were dead.
j85n TIL NASA validated space drive engine technology it had been dismissing as impossible for years. this engine converts electric power into thrust with no need for propellant. NASA can not explain how it works, but has named it the “quantum vacuum plasma thruster”
pxmN TIL that when Apple began designating employee numbers, Steve Jobs was offended that Wozniak received #1 while he got #2. He believed he should be second to no one, so he took #0 instead.
8eeW4 TIL Lee Iacocca's family owned a restaurant but since the Pennsylvania Dutch could not pronounce Iacocca (an Italian name) and said "Yocco" instead, the name was changed to reflect their pronunciation.
m1lwv TIL- For every 1 person living on earth, there are 15 dead people. Over 100 billion humans have been and gone before us.