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TIL: Ernest Hemingway hunted U Boats and Submarines on his fishing boat with grenades and machine guns.

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b6kV9 TIL about 21% of beef in the US comes from culled dairy cows, sold for slaughter at around age 5 when their milk production drops off. This culling increases profitability and so subsidizes the cost of the milk production.
VEJk TIL the creator of WinRar, Ron Dwight, passed away in 2002.
awVb9 TIL: The Russian Army finally switched to socks (from footwraps) in 2013.
OopLa TIL that per the 2012 census, West Virginia was the only US state to be a "net mortality society", where there were more deaths than births
M7YY8 TIL General Electric was one of the first members of Dow Index in 1895, and the last to remain there until 2018.