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TIL During Prohibition, moonshiners would wear "cow shoes." The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police.

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oByAY TIL with the US entry into WWI, German nationals were automatically classified "enemy aliens." Some 250,000 people in that category were required to register and carry registration cards. A total of 2,048 were incarcerated for the remainder of the war in two camps in Utah and Georgia.
rQrM TIL: That The Netherlands has a defence system where they can turn the provinces of North and South Holland into an island by flooding any potential crossings into the province.
M7497 TIL On 28 January 1896, the first person to be convicted of speeding is believed to be Walter Arnold of East Peckham, Kent, UK, who was fined 1 shilling plus costs for speeding at 8 mph (13 km/h).
7r85O TIL in 2011 a British restaurant started charging customers $5 for bringing a baby "because the infants take up space in the restaurant, even if they aren't eating"
NXdXe TIL chocolate chip cookies were invented less than a 100 years ago (in 1938), by Ruth Graves Wakefield