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TIL in 2001 two deaf men were stabbed in a Florida sports bar when a gang member mistook their sign language for gang signs.

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rRnZe TIL that why mandrills have such colorful bums. Turns out the bright red and blue on a male mandrill’s backside really draws the eye – especially the ladies’. Only dominant, top males flaunt such vibrant hues, and female mandrills see them as a badge of fitness.
NepJ TIL Chinese guerrillas during WWII were given bags of flour, mixed with the powdery white high explosive HMX, to bypass Japanese checkpoints. The resulting mixture could safely be cooked into pancakes and eaten. Leftover dough and pastries could still be used as explosives. Code name: “Aunt Jemima.”
v75R TIL Microsoft was making $5-15 on every Android phone sold because of patents, peaking at $2bil in 2013
LQB7P TIL Florida is a major producer of Norfolk Island pine seedlings, but it is common practice there to spray-paint the trees and some treat them as "disposable plants".
nW49d TIL that during the 1956 Hungarian revolution, British embassy staff, with the aid of Hungarian revolutionaries, were able to capture an abandoned Soviet T-54 tank and keep it in the British embassy long enough for British engineers to study the tank and determine its strength and weaknesses.