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TIL the creation of public drinking fountains in the US was supported by the Temperance Movement to stop people from drinking alcohol.

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BrA4e TIL that Japanese beer company Asahi gave away a R2D2 shaped beer robot to customers who collected a certain amount of seals that were hidden in beer cans.
OG6PL TIL about the white-throated sparrow, where male and female birds each exist in two forms: a white morph and a tan morph. Tan morphs only mate with white morphs, creating four different groups of birds that each act like a distinct 'sex' - tan males, tan females, white males and white females.
69ypW TIL that former managing director of the Guinness Breweries, Hugh Beaver, created the concept of the Guinness Book of Records, after being involved in an argument over which was the fastest game bird in Europe
549Q TIL that Coca Cola had tried to sell bottled water at a premium price which happened to be tap water taken from the mains
a8oR9 TIL that in 2019 Daniela Leis, driving absolutely wasted after a Marilyn Manson concert, crashed her car into a home. The resulting explosion destroyed four homes, injured seven people and caused damage of $10-15million. She sued the concert organizers for serving her alcohol while intoxicated.