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TIL Apple prohibits “bad guys” from using iPhones in movies

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nQ0r TIL After visiting the Cambridge Hotel, Gordon Ramsay payed for 4 years of the chefs college, helping him to achieve his dream of owning a bakery. The only thing he wanted in return was a loaf of bread.
6ylw TIL The abandonment of city streetcar systems in the mid-twentieth century led to accusations of conspiracy which held that a union of automobile, oil, and tire manufacturers shut down the streetcar systems in order to further the use of buses and automobiles.
A6E4 TIL Wyoming cattle barons hired a private army to kill smallhold farmers and ranchers in 1892: The Johnson County War
4XyDN TIL: Thanks to a gruesome mistake, a French Canadian Voyageur was shot in the stomach, but later healed and recovered from the wound, scientists were better able to understand the digestive tract thanks to how his wound healed, which allowed probing of his stomach actively digesting.
jNKBM TIL Mountain Dew was originally a mixer to Bourbon.