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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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KYXQG TIL modern day heart and lung transplants were heralded by a scientist who once surgically added a second head to a dogs body. The dog lived for almost a month.
yPkV TIL that Ron Howard has given each of his children the middle name of where they were conceived: Bryce (Dallas), Jocelyn and Paige (Carlyle; Carlyle Hotel, NYC), and Reed (Cross; famous London street. Reed was named after the street because according to Howard, “Volvo isn’t a very good middle name.”
Z8lbB TIL of the rex Nemorensis, a Roman priest dedicated to Diana. The office was only open to runaway slaves, and to become the new priest, the slave had to kill his predecessor: "accordingly the priest is always armed with a sword, looking around for the attacks, and ready to defend himself."
xOlg TIL that South Carolina was not flying the confederate flag for the first half of the 20th century, and only reintroduced it in the 1960s in response to being forced to integrate their schools.
erwJ TIL that in the UK you cannot cremate an amputated limb until its owner is dead, due to the Cremation Regulations act 2008, part 19(b)(i)