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TIL Pastafarians in Wisconsin are allowed to wear their headdresses in their driver's license photos

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avlb TIL that during the 2008 world hops shortage, the Samuel Adams brewery sold 108 craft breweries their excess hops, at cost, to help prevent them from going under.
4kmnb TIL E is not in the grading system cause there was concern it would be misinterpreted as “Excellent”
vMV8 TIL that during the Great Depression, people used small “coins” worth fractions of a cent to avoid paying too much extra sales tax on small purchases due to rounding.
4G85 TIL that bread isn’t good for ducks, and worse is actually the equivalent of fast food to them.
9Y5w6 TIL about randomart in ssh. It generates ASCII art from ssh keys. SSH keys are long strings of characters, and they are easy to verify with a computer, but difficult for humans to verify visually. If you regularly ssh to a server, it's anticipated that you'd notice any changes to the picture.