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TIL That Apple had a videogame console called the "Apple Pippin"

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VMarB TIL British breweries donated free beer to soldiers during WWII, but after D-Day, there was no room for it on the ships going across the English Channel. Spitfire mechanics and pilots worked together to modify pylons to carry beer kegs and deliver brews to the troops. Flying high enough chilled it.
9Y5JG TIL the Church of Satan does not believe in the Devil, neither a Christian nor Islamic notion of Satan. They view Satan as a positive archetype who represents pride, individualism and enlightenment, and as a symbol of defiance against the Abrahamic faiths suppression of humanity's natural instincts.
1okr TIL James Bowie would smuggle slaves in to the U.S., turn them in, then buy them back at half price, making $65,000
Egm8d TIL there was an elephant named Osama bin Laden. After a two-year rampage from 2004 to 2006, the elephant was eventually shot, though some doubted whether the correct animal had been killed.
QJA8d TIL that in 1982, Zimbabwe passed a law banning citizens from making jokes about the surname of the President, Canaan Banana.