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TIL: Tequila in EU is protected designation of Mexico (United Mexican States)

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mxL0o TIL about Brandt Kuykendal, a man who created his own ISP after discovering that he could not get reliable and fast internet in his town. He mainly built the ISP because his daughter needed fast internet to excel in school.
4Xggo TIL Charles Manson completed 150 hours of Scientology auditing before declaring the religion "too crazy"
VMGjB TIL the Australian 1 and 2 cent coins were withdrawn from circulation in 1992. The recovered coins were melted down to make the bronze medals for the Sydney 2000 Olympics
VMXRp TIL that IBM purged Urban Dictionary's data from IBM Watson's memory because it learned to swear
N8jP TIL that although it was decided by early Christians not to be put in the bible, there is a gospel called the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. This gospel is about Jesus’ childhood and has stories of Jesus cursing other children and making them die and in one case making another child wither into a corpse.