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TIL that Boeing in 2012 used potatoes to test Wi-Fi on airplanes

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vP8e7 TIL Prolific author, screenwriter and filmmaker Michael Crichton wrote a video game called Amazon for the Apple II series computer in 1984
J1dMv TIL A community close to the jungles in Uganda received $50,000, the area's 20 percent share of annual income from gorilla tourism and now villagers are motivated to protect gorillas. In the past residents didn't realize gorillas were rare or special as some people even ate them
DJDD TIL the Flash has moved and ran so fast, that he was capable of outrunning and defeating death itself (the Black Flash) by outracing it to the end of time/space, past entropy, the next Big Bang and into the next Universe.
GrKN TIL the inventor of My Pillow was a crack addict who got sober when 3 of the largest crack dealers in the city staged an intervention.
MLQ0 TIL current Miss America, Kira Kazantsev, was expelled from her sorority, Alpha Phi, for cruel hazing.