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TIL that HP used to sell iPods, and these iPods couldn't be serviced at Apple stores, since they weren't considered an Apple product

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Y7exA TIL during the Falklands War the British Navy mistook whales for submarines and torpedoed them, killing three
gME1W TIL that Soul Asylum’s "Runaway Train" helped find 25 missing children featured in the music video, but also led to a girl being returned to a "bad home situation" and a fireman discovering his daughter was killed by her mother and buried in the mother's backyard.
oBokA TIL Chuck E. Cheese was originally a division of Atari. It was the pet project of Atari founder Nolan Bushnell, who wanted to expand video game arcades beyond more adult locations like pool halls to a child- and family-friendly venue.
jNXeR TIL Blackbeard was from North Carolina.
j646N TIL that dolphins are scientifically classified as “toothed whales.”