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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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WkxoL TIL John Colter (member of Lewis and Clark expedition) Was captured and forced to sprint for his life by a group of Blackfeet Indians for 6 miles before killing 1 Indian, hiding in a beaver dam, and walking to a fort for 11 days (all while naked.)
R5aeQ TIL: Chechen is a language that originally used an Arabic script, then Latin, and finally Cyrillic starting in 1938. Despite being written in Cyrillic, it maintains the sounds and pronunciations of Arabic.
EgRmP TIL: 20g of tea harvested from six ancient "Da Hong Pao" tea bushes on a mountain cliff auctioned for $28000 in 2002, making it one of the most expensive teas ever. Those six trees are now protected by the Chinese government from further harvest with the final harvest being in 2005.
78BmL TIL 75% of all the royal families in European history are related to the Capetian dynasty, who ruled France from 987-1792 and 1814-1848 (with a brief interruption in 1815).
YBAW TIL that Scientology uses the same strategy as Chinese spies to deflect criticism