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TIL that Ben & Jerry’s has a “flavor graveyard” where there are tombstones for earlier flavors that are no longer sold

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EgWDV TIL charging cords and gas stations will be obsolete by 2025?!?!?!
b9Ox7 TIL about the Banana Massacre of 1928, where the US threatened Colombia with military invasion if it didn't end the ongoing Chiquita workers' strike. The Colombian army fired on unarmed protesters, men, women, and children, killing somewhere between 800 and 3,000.
xmg7 TIL The longest flight lasted over 2 months, a record that hasn’t been broken for more than 50 years.
eO5J TIL that German software company SAP actively recruits autistic people because “Only by employing people who think differently and spark innovation will SAP be prepared to handle the challenges of the 21st century”.
9mKr TIL that Leonardo da Vinci invented the Miter Lock in 1497, which is still in use today including in the Panama and Suez Canals.