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TIL Verizon throttled fire department’s “unlimited” data during Califiornia wildfire, Fire dep't had to pay twice as much to lift throttling during wildfire response.

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WGJo TIL in a region of France where the saturated fat intake is the highest in the world, the rate of heart disease is ¼ that of the US.
gMnw8 TIL that De Beers, the world's biggest diamonds company, started selling synthetic diamonds for the first time in its 130-year history. The manufacturing process has become so perfect that it has become difficult to tell the difference between synthetic and natural diamonds.
BNbe TIL that Elizabeth Taylor had not only violet tinted irises, but also a mutation causing her to have double the amount of eyelashes.
rR8jo TIL out of the 1000 oldest companies in the world, more than half of them come from Japan.
780VP TIL the hot spot fueling Yellowstone quite literally blasted through mountain ranges with volcano explosions to “rest” where it’s at today