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TIL 100Mb/s was reliably sent over barbed wire to demonstrate Ethernet robustness in a Broadcom showcase

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Y7Dv7 TIL Illinois has 9 Official State Animals
jNJ6p TIL that Robin Williams had Diffuse Lewy Body Dementia and Parkinson's which [his wife believes] led him to kill himself. His wife says depression had very little to do with it.
OoJQg TIL that During the early Middle Ages, almost every scholar thought the Earth was round, not flat. The myth that they thought earth is flat back, picked up steam in the 1800s, right around the same time the idea of evolution was rising in prominence — and religious and scientific interests clashed.
O0M7 TIL that drug use in video games is classified under the same regulations as child porn for Australian Customs
R7j51 TIL New York City is the most linguistically diverse city in the world, with an estimated 800 languages spoken