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TIL John Deere has been using the DMCA to stop anyone but dealerships from working on their equipment. Citing the potential to pirate music using the tractor’s entertainment system among other reasons

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vmY4 TIL In the final days of WWII, German Wehrmacht soldiers fought alongside US Army troops to defend a medieval castle from the Waffen SS
6DNZ TIL in 2013 PayPal accidentally credited $92 quadrillion to a Pennsylvania man.
ZpKXv TIL The “Texas Triangle”— composed of the Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio and Austin metro areas — holds 68% of the state’s 30.3 million residents
kwQ1 TIL there is a gigantic water vapor cloud in space that holds 140 Trillion times the water in earths oceans.
5DMr TIL African American soldiers in World War I served under the French military because white American soldiers refused to perform with them. Many African Americans moved to France after the war because they were treated better in that country.