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TIL After pressure from customers, Starbucks blocked customers from watching porn in stores using their Wi-Fi.

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P1EJV TIL in 2015 a US University suspended a Jewish student who had posted a Hindu Swastika on his residence hall's University board. He had learnt about the symbol on a spring break trip to India.
paw8 TIL Lincoln, NE was named after Abraham Lincoln as a ploy to keep Nebraska’s capital as Omaha. Many people in Nebraska had been sympathetic to the Confederate cause and it was assumed that the legislature would not change the capital if the new capital were named after Abraham Lincoln
awEbN TIL a Louis XIV naval shipyard built a 40 canon vessel in 7 hours only, on 13 July 1679
keym TIL in Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech, the entire “dream” part was actually improvised and not written on his script, rather being prompted by Mahalia Jackson, who cried “Tell them about the dream, Martin!”