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TIL: That there is internet via Amateur Radio!

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JV1Q TIL cigarette filters are printed to look like cork.
5YNnP TIL that penguins can shoot faeces up to 4feet due to their strong rectal pressure.
N70WP TIL that Ettore Boiardi marketed his products under the brand "Chef Boy-Ar-Dee" so that Americans could pronounce his name properly.
ym5p TIL in 1984 McDonald’s ran a promotion where customers scratched off a ticket with the name of an Olympic event on it, and if the U.S. won that event then they would be given a free menu item. The promotion became a near financial disaster due to the Soviet boycott.
PYywG TIL the sinking of the Titanic was a popular subject for early African-American rapping (known as Toasts), specifically the story of a fictional black worker named "Shine" who tries to warn the captain about water flooding, but is ignored.