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TIL that Coca-Cola made a soda for the dystopian future, called OK Soda, which came with its own manifesto, and the slogan, "Everything is going to be OK."
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Submitted April 03, 2019 at 11:40PM by Chemical_Cutthroat
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TIL during the tornado outbreak of 1974, forecasters in Indiana, frustrated because they could not keep up with all of the simultaneous tornado activity, put the entire state under a blanket tornado warning. This was the only time in U.S. history that an entire state was under a tornado warning.
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Submitted April 03, 2019 at 11:11PM by F16KILLER
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TIL: The band Chicago was so fond of cocaine that during a tour in the 1970's they put a fake phone booth on stage called the "Snortitorium" so they could do lines mid-concert without going backstage.
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Submitted April 04, 2019 at 12:44AM by One_Example
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TIL that the bikini was invented by the frenchman Louis Réard in 1946. At the time, the USA were conducting Atomic Bomb tests in the Bikini Atoll, and so Louis Réard named his two piece swimsuit the “Bikini” as it was what he referred to as an “Anatomic Bomb”
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Submitted April 04, 2019 at 01:17AM by RomainTroj
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TIL in high school, with his imposing physique and creepy mustache, most Dwayne “the Rock” Johnson’s classmates thought he was an undercover cop.
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Submitted April 04, 2019 at 05:20AM by jaiga99
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TIL 5 teenagers died after a fire in escape rooms in Poland. Poland’s interior minister then ordered fire safety inspections at more than 1,000 escape room locations across the country. Previously, there was no official requirement for fire safety certificates at such locations.
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Submitted April 04, 2019 at 12:09PM by minddoor
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TIL every Apple product in every promotional photo is set to 9:41 a.m. This is because when Jobs introduced the original iPhone at MacWorld 2007, he wanted the first image of the phone to show the actual time on the audience's watches. He did a practice run in 41 minutes, so the time was set to 9:41
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Submitted April 04, 2019 at 06:39AM by shut_your_cock
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TIL of May Bradford, a Red Cross volunteer during WWI who wrote over 25,000 letters and notes, an average of 12 a day, for wounded soldiers who were too ill or too uneducated to write to their family. She also sat with the injured and dying and considered herself to be a surrogate mother to them.
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Submitted April 04, 2019 at 03:44PM by angelawolfe2012
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TIL The Sims was actually meant as a satire of U.S. consumer culture and creator Will Wright was inspired to create a "virtual doll house" after losing his home during the Oakland firestorm of 1991.
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Submitted April 04, 2019 at 10:25AM by nwowned
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TIL U.S. heart bypass operations cost on average $75,345, compared to $15,742 in the Netherlands. This means you could theoretically fly to the Netherlands, have the operation there, live there for a month, have the operation again and fly back and still spend less than in the US for one operation.
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Submitted April 04, 2019 at 05:47PM by Priamosish
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TIL The oldest recorded "your mom" joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet in 1976. The text read: “...of your mother is by the one who has intercourse with her. What/who is it?” There was no response on the tablet.
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Submitted April 04, 2019 at 02:10PM by TheFineMantine
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TIL: Juul had to ban their products within their own office, resorting employees to use a tent for smoke or Juul breaks
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Submitted April 04, 2019 at 04:18PM by forgotmypass10
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TIL, the Midnight Club was a secret street racing team in Tokyo, bound by a strict moral code that put pedestrian/motorist safety first. The club disbanded in 1999 when a race turned accident killed innocent drivers
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Submitted April 04, 2019 at 06:16PM by capthowdy0000
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TIL Honda kept its aircraft development project a secret from Soichiro Honda who was retired at the time, they worried that he might insist on resuming an active role if he got wind of the aircraft project because he loved aircrafts so much.
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Submitted April 04, 2019 at 10:54AM by Fadic4
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TIL that Chicago's Field Museum has 10 colonies of flesh-eating beetles, who live and work at the museum cleaning animal bones for display.
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Submitted April 04, 2019 at 06:43PM by willrunfordonuts
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