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TIL Google made a bid to to offer free wireless connection in San Francisco but Comcast and Verizon claimed “unfair competition”

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X0PE8 TIL South African musician Lucky Dube was killed in a shooting because his assailants allegedly thought he was a Nigerian
kO1od TIL that the Sega Genesis (Mega Drive) still sells so well in Brazil that a company is making new consoles for the market.
exRn TIL that in Turkmenistan, car drivers are entitled to 120 Liters of free petrol a month
QJ5Lk TIL that Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner who discovered prions, an infectious protein in the brain, was attacked by both the scientific establishment and the media when he presented his ideas due to the thinking that an infectious protein would be impossible.
Y76a7 TIL- There is no requirement for alcohol to have allergen warnings on the label in the U.S., and it is common for winemakers to use Chitosan (shellfish exoskeletons) as a clarifying agent, and to stop fermentation.