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TIL Bono from U2 was named after a hearing aid shop in Dublin
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1ab57
TIL: An autonomous killer robot is hunting coral eating starfish at the great barrier reef.
WeyN
TIL there is a ruined city on 100 artificial islands linked with canals in the Pacific Ocean dating back to the 1st Century. Scientists do not know how they were constructed. Local legend says they were built by two sorcerers with the aid of a flying dragon.
D1lJP
TIL When the Billy Joel song “Only The Good Die Young” was released as a single, religious groups attempted to censor the song from radio stations, which caused the initially poor sales of the song to skyrocket.
W7M94
TIL McDonald's introduced its drive-thru service due to the military in Fort Huachuca, AZ not being able to be seen in public with their uniforms on. It made no sense to change into regular clothes just to go to McDonald’s so the manager of the restaurant came up this solution.
a1DA
TIL of the 2010 Plain Writing Act, requiring that government agencies use plain (easy-to-read) English in every document they write