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TIL AT&T forced Apple to block Skype calls on the iPhone between 2007-2009 because it competed with their own service

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x64n7 TIL a Dry Sheep Equivalent (DSE) is a unit based on the amount of feed required for a standard sheep to maintain its weight
D9AV TIL the main point of a water tower is to provide water pressure, rather than water.
X0E9j TIL the most distant individual star we've ever seen, Earendel, was detected because of a chance alignment of the Hubble telescopes instruments and a huge galaxy cluster that warped space and acted as a gravitational lens.
7Ge7 TIL Cosmo is over a hundred years old and started out as a literary magazine containing stories and articles from Nobel Prize winners Sinclair Lewis, George Bernard Shaw, and Ernest Hemingway. They didn’t give out shitty relationship advice and horrifying sex tips until 1965.
X9YP TIL there are “marijuana vending machines” in the United States which allow prescribed users to scan their fingerprints to acquire a medicinal dosage of marijuana.