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TIL: Chocolate milk doesn't come from brown cows.

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D1B6j TIL NYC’s first public WiFi kiosks had to shut off browser access because so many people were using them to watch porn.
YRkP TIL American soldiers in WWI who were skilled at trap shooting were armed with model 1897s and were stationed where they could fire at enemy hand grenades in midair. This would deflect the grenades from falling into the American trenches and therefore protect American soldiers
wLReW TIL- A massive nuclear disaster occurred in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico when a decommissioned radio therapy machine used for cancer treatment was disassembled by a cleaning crew. They then delivered the cobalt 60 to a junkyard which then used contaminated metal in construction projects around Mexico.
ZVpD TIL that Russians may have prevented France and England from entering the American Civil War
rNEW0 TIL in 2015, Billy Mitchell filed a lawsuit against Cartoon Network, saying in the series Regular Show, a character who cheats at video games infringed on his likeness. Years later, the legitimacy of a number of his records was called into question, leading to them being stripped