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TIL there’s 5 gigabits of useless background noise transmitted every second through the Internet (circa 2010)

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5YYaD TIL that despite being surprised by a 30,000 man army during the Mongols third invasion of Poland, the Polish were able to repel the Mongols and inflict heavy casualties
9jDr TIL there is a sport called ‘kiiking’ , popular in Estonia, where people swing on swings all the way, a full 360 degrees
1beO TIL baseball catcher Dave Bresnahan threw a potato to deceive a baserunner into being tagged by the ball. The league banned him but fan-support forced the club to retire his number. At his retirement ceremony he said “Gehrig played 2130 games & hit 340; all I had to do was bat .140 & throw a potato”
yQe4e TIL that Stephen Hillenburg designed the show SpongeBob SquarePants off of a comic he created while studying marine biology to teach kids about creatures that lived in intertidal pools with the main character being “Bob the Sponge”
x60eo TIL of the tragic Concordia University massacre in 1992 that claimed the lives of four professors in Concordia University, Montréal Canada