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TIL that the FCC allows ADs on internet streaming services to be louder than the show playing.

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wLrmW TIL that although it's called the "San Francisco Bay Area", the city of San Francisco isn't even the biggest city in that area. San Jose, its neighbor to the South, is more populous and nearly 4 TIMES larger in area.
696XJ TIL the FDA approved a pill with a sensor that digitally tracks if patients have ingested their medication
JYaD4 TIL in 1997 an experiment to build a castle, using only medieval tools began, and twenty one years later they're more than half way finished.
69l9w TIL during the Napoleonic wars Sicily was occupied and made a protectorate by the UK, the British ultimately aimed at annexing the Island as a 5th kingdom to their union but they had to renounce this plan after the fall of Napoleon due to Russian and French pressure.
loO77 TIL in 1493, Columbus thought he saw mermaids. "They were not as pretty as depicted, for somehow in the face they looked like men" he wrote. Today it is suspected that he saw a manatee.