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TIL there were electric cab companies in the 19th century.

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LkNJZ TIL that durning WW2, the US government begged housewives to not reuse bacon grease, but to turn it in. A pound of fat could make a pound of explosives for bombs. In the end, bacon helped defeat the Nazis.
d8NP9 TIL, Galwan clash was, about Indian Army dismantling a Dam built in Chinese Territory.
gMaQW TIL about the Ebionite Christianity, a very old old belief (dates back to 180 CE) that Jesus was a human prophet who was born normally and had brothers, it was deemed heretical in Nicaea Council
orWW TIL President Lyndon Johnson was infamous for having meetings while on the toilet
DQLQv TIL Dobermanns were first bred in the 1880s by Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann, a tax collector who ran a dog pound in central Germany. With access to dogs of many breeds, he got the idea to create a breed that would be ideal for protecting him.