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TIL that in a blind tasting of Coca Cola the tasters preferred Corn Syrup American Coca Cola over Mexican Coca Cola made with sugar.

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v9Qj TIL that child chimney sweep apprentices had to crawl through vertical mazes of chimneys and frequently were left to die when they became stuck
5VV1B TIL that from 1968 to the early 1990s, the BVD (intelligency agency of the Netherlands) created the "Marxist–Leninist Party of the Netherlands", a a fake pro-China communist party in set up to develop contacts with the Chinese government for espionage purposes. The fake party even had newspapers.
mvPR TIL Monsanto Managers discovered that fish submerged in a creek near one of their chemical facilities in Anniston, Alabama turned belly-up within 10 seconds, spurting blood and shedding skin as if dunked into boiling water. They told no one. They hid the pollution caused by PCBs for decades.
WkV6X TIL 50 Cent challenged Floyd Mayweather to read one full page of a 'Harry Potter' book out loud without starting and stopping or messing up. If Floyd Mayweather accomplished this, 50 Cent agreed to donate $750,000 to a charity of Mayweather’s choice. Floyd Mayweather ultimately declined the offer.
NO7Q TIL that The Villages, the largest gated retirement community in America, also has one of the fastest growing STD rates in the country.