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TIL before the breakup, AT&T didn't allow customers to use phones made by other companies, claiming using them would degrade the network.

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Egy1w TIL that cotton candy was invented by a dentist
p8pGp TIL after the death of the 4th-century BCE Mausolus of Caria (in Anatolia), his wife and sister Artemisia reigned for 2 years. She built the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World) in his honour, and in her grief is said to have mixed his ashes in her daily drink
MebDV TIL the US Simulated a Bioweapons Attack in Operation Dark Winter, and it Did Not Go Well
QNKr6 TIL that in China there is a village called Houtouwan that has been "swallowed" by nature. It's located on the island of Shengshan, and in its heyday it was inhabited by three thousand families.
WKno TIL of David Hahn, who at 17 years old attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his backyard, which at one point was emitting over 1000 times normal background radiation.