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TIL that despite many variations on which technologies are allowed, practically all Amish have adopted the use of motorized washing machines

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JDKj TIL Bill Murray once showed up at a student house party in Scotland. He drank their Vodka out of a coffee cup and did their dishes.
YplpZ Today I learned that "all bourbon is whiskey, but not all whiskey is bourbon" is an example of a subsumptive containment hierarchy or "is-a" subsumption, where whiskey is the "superclass" and bourbon "is-a" subclass. The shorthand for this relationship is "Bourbon ⊆ Whiskey" or "Whiskey ⊇ Bourbon".
lPX1 TIL In 1964, during their first American tour, The Beatles refused to play their scheduled concert in Jacksonville until the audience was desegregated
8P6K TIL that a Japanese scientist made a replica of Tokyo using oat flakes to represent population centers and bright light to represent mountains, water, and other obstacles on a dish. When he placed a living slime mold in the model, it created a network that resembled Tokyo’s rail system.
PYvrZ TIL In the United States is home to 76.5 million pet cats; one in three households own a pet cat, including over 34% of those adopted being stray or feral.