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TIL that websites don’t actually need servers, they can be hosted on torrents.

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rGVd TIL that 1835 was the last year that America was debt free.
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X7n6 TIL James Earl Jones was only paid $7,000 for his work as Darth Vader. If he had taken points instead he would have made 10’s of millions of dollars.
vP46L TIL William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic nominee for President, traveled 18,000 miles (29,000 km) and to 27 states and made around 600 speeches that had a combined audience of around 5 million people during his 1896 campaign
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