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TIL 2.1 million people still use AOL dial-up
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TIL that Andre Geim won the satirical Ig Nobel Prize in 2000 for his work on using magnetism to levitate a frog. 10 years later, his experiments regarding graphene won him the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics. This makes him the only ever recipient of both the Ig Nobel and Nobel Prizes.
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TIL that signer of USA constitution, Gouverneur Morris, died from sticking a whalebone in his urethra.
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TIL that Rinconada, Peru is the worlds highest elevated city at 16,732 ft above sea level and its economy is based around a gold mine that operates on a unique system where employees work for 30 days without payment, and on the 31st day they are allowed to take as much ore as they can carry.
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TIL of the difference between the Italian "Macaroon" (coconut merengues) and the French "Macaron" (merengue-cream sandwich)
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TIL In order to bolster the English navy with rope, sails, and netting, Henry VIII ordered that farmers grow 1/4 acre of hemp for every 60 acres of farmland, otherwise they’d be fined three shillings and four pence. Elizabeth I raised the fine to £5.