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TIL the .ai domain for artificial intelligence actually stands for Anguilla, a Caribbean island

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XEQP TIL through listed accounts in the Bible, God killed a total of 2,552,452 people.
XlOD TIL The ATMs in the Vatican City are the only ones in the world to offer Latin as a language display option
b91y9 TIL During Prohibition the residents of NY and New Jersey were warned about "poison booze" streaming across the border from Canada. Any potential drinkers were warned that 90% of Canadian whiskey were made from cheap grain alcohol, water and coloring substances. Illnesses and deaths ensued.
9w5G6 TIL A Nashville music promoter tried to open a for-profit museum about the JFK assassination at the Dallas Texas School Book Depository building in the 1970s. Floors of the building stayed empty until the Sixth Floor Museum opened in 1989 in response to the many visitors who visit Dealey Plaza
b69DQ TIL in 2009 women in a Columbian town went on a sex strike to force the men of the town to repair the main road in and out of town. After 112 days the work on the highway began.