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TIL John Carmack spent 1 year in Juvie for stealing computers from a school.

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75Br TIL there is a 13,000-square-mile area in West Virginia where cell phones and Wi-FI are banned.
oBE4Y TIL skateboarding started to appear in China after an American skateboarder traveled to Beijing to study Chinese in 1986. There wasn't a Chinese word for skateboarding at the time he arrived.
EjoX TIL a group of monkeys in Thailand has been living in the Stone Age for 50 years
1a8l8 Ozone holes open over the South Pole every year. Holes at the North Pole are much, much rarer but scientists have detected what may be the largest hole in the ozone layer ever recorded over the North Pole. Fortunately, the hole looks likely to close on its own in the next few weeks, the European Space Agency researchers said.
WvW4 TIL that there are 11,842 lakes in the state of Minnesota. More than the entire continent of Africa.