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TIL that General Motors and other companies would buy street cars and trains and scrap them to decrease public transportation competition

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9wNvr TIL new facial-recognition analysis appears to prove that Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers were, in fact, successful in their escape from Alcatraz.
vPaej TIL in 2018, the term “Ass-Clown” was added into Webster’s Dictionary, crediting Mike Judge as the screenwriter behind Office Space for coining it
XEpeQ TIL the city of Eskilstuna in Sweden recycles half of all its waste, with no domestic waste going to landfill.
dDYYE TIL that when 13-year-old Ryan White got AIDS from a blood donor in 1984, he was banned from returning to school by a petition signed by 117 parents. An auction was held to keep him out, a newspaper supporting him got death threats, and his family left town when a gun was fired through their window.
d8GY7 TIL for three years Milka (Swiss/German chocolate brand) used a lilac-colored promotional tour boat with a five-meter-high cow mascot on the rivers of Germany and Austria. This boat was named the “Muhboot” (pronounced Moo-boat)