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TIL The Guy Who Invented the "iBeer" App for iPhone Made $20K a Day From App Store Downloads in 2008

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QJ7xL TIL that not only were some WW2 PoW’s brought back to the US, any that were unclaimed after they died were buried at the base where they died. As a result, there are two Nazi soldiers buried at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, and their headstones have swastikas on them.
gMDK4 TIL that Lego is the worlds largest tire manufacturer by number of units produced per year because of the Lego-tires
VBQmp TIL that dragonflies are the world's most successful predator!
7L9X TIL that the Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man was invented as an art project for the opening ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics
AN9mw TIL in 1965, To simulate an atomic blast, the US Navy detonated 500 tons of TNT on the sacred Hawaiian island of Kahoolawe, cracking the islands groundwater, draining it into sea