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TIL it is illegal for bars in Colorado to sell beer with LESS than 4% alcohol by volume

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rN18w TIL In 1943, a Luftwaffe pilot came across a crippled B-17 trying to make it home after a bomb run. Instead of shooting it down, the German pilot escorted it home. The pilots met up 50 years later and became friends, and both died within a few months of each other
QJV9E TIL on October 31, 2011, a baby girl named Danica May Camacho, was chosen by the United Nations to symbolically represent the 7 billionth person on earth. To mark this global-population milestone, October 31 was named Seven Billion Day.
5VwMQ TIL The first Artificial Intelligence (AI) conference was held in 1956
Lkag0 TIL UFC Champion Charles Oliveira who was born in a poor family in a favela in Brazil, was diagnosed with a disease at age 7 and was told he would never walk again. His mother responded "we don't accept that." His mom then sold snacks and discarded cardboard on the streets to help fund his training
Oo0vg TIL that the lunar surface is strewn with more than 100 manmade items, from bags of urine to monumental plaques.