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TIL that by June 2015, Earthlings want to launch hundreds of small satellites into low orbit that will broadcast free and uncensored Internet to everyone in the world

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l70jV TIL I learned of a gamma ray burst that struck earth with such intensity it had the same effects as a powerful solar flair. The source of the burst was over two billion light years away.
LVNp TIL: Coffee was banned in Mecca in 1511. It was believed to stimulate radical thinking and hanging out.
Mxg8 TIL in 1959 a group of soviet-era Russian scientists were selectively breeding the silver fox. Through selecting foxes with desirable characteristics, calm demeanour for example, the project produced the first human friendly phenotypes.
e7Ln TIL Coke was for white customers only, while Pepsi was marketed to black customers
j6oZp TIL Of the vegetable lamb of tartary. How northern Europeans explained cotton in the middle ages.