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TIL a New York man sued Miller Brewing Co. for false advertising, claiming that its Fosters commercials convinced him that the beer was Australian. In fact, the beer is actually brewed in Fort Worth, Texas.

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JYXJQ TIL iPhones have a built in PDF maker. Simply select “Print” on anything (pictures, documents, web page, etc), then use your fingers to zoom in on the print preview, and what you see is actually a pdf that you can save, share, etc.
OEE7 TIL Mohammed V, monarch of Morocco, and Vichy French colonial subject was ordered to produce a list of Jewish subjects, he responded: “There are no Jews in Morocco. There are only Moroccans”“
gMGvL TIL in ancient Sri Lanka, they used winds driven by the yearly monsoons to power some of the first steel-making furnaces to produce what's called Wootz Steel.
5VB19 TIL there is at least one known occasion in Ancient Athens where a whole six thousand jurors sat together to judge a single case
4kE8R TIL for Hawaiians, water (wai) symbolizes life. The Hawaiian word for prosperity or wealth, is 'waiwai', literally means 'water-water'. Many names in Hawaiian have the word 'wai' in it, referring to the water source that the people relied on at that time.