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TIL the current fastest Wifi band (6GHz) already transmits, but most people can't access it. As of 2023, tech giants such has Apple only have 2 phones that support it.

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LQkEV TIL McDonald's mascot Ronald McDonald is known as "Donald McDonald" in Japan due to the Japanese language lacking a proper "R" sound
69MYQ TIL that Andrée de Jongh, the mastermind that led the Comet Line during WWII, was saved from execution because Gestapo officers did not believe that such a small young girl could lead such an operation. The network, consisting of mainly young women, smuggled shot down airmen from Belgium to Spain.
VoPk TIL that in 1861 Francis Key Howard wrote an editorial about President Lincoln’s suspension of the Writ of Habeas Corpus. He was subsequently imprisoned and held without trial for two years at Fort McHenry, where his grandfather Francis Scott Key wrote The Star Spangled Banner during the War of 1812
neb1B TIL that LEGO is the largest tire manufacturer in the world, producing 320 million tires per year
GAAlg TIL about the Lady Juliana (1777 ship), a ship chartered to transport a load of all-female prisoners to Australia, which quickly developed a reputation as a floating brothel: "when we were fairly out to sea, every man on board took a wife from among the convicts, they nothing loath."