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TIL that during WWII a pilot named J. Hunter Reinberg wanted to make ice cream for his men in the Pacific Theater. So he flew to 33,000 ft and came back down with gallons of chocolate ice cream.

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KbPw TIL the ellipsis (three dots…) is it’s own Unicode character (U+2026). Try highlighting just one of these dots… This is why you get interesting spacing when typing out strings of periods on Microsoft Word, it tries to autocorrect 3 periods in a row into ellipses thus slightly changing the spacing.
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