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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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xjPk TIL The Author of the study that first claimed vaccines cause autism had his medical license stripped after the findings were redacted due to an elaborate fraud.
7rePL TIL Quebec banned ads for toys and fast food aimed at children under 13, resulting in lowered childhood obesity rates
ng0b TIL: there have been only 2 human deaths attributed to wolves in North America in the 21st century
OwV4 TIL in 2016, with the support of her mother, a U.K. teenage girl with terminal cancer successfully petitioned London’s High Court for the right to be cryogenically frozen. The girl died with the knowledge that she would be frozen, and her body was sent to the U.S. for long-term cryogenic storage.
8gvK TIL Jerry Seinfeld asked Joan Rivers to be the first guest on Season 5 of “Comedians in Cars”. She postponed due to a scheduled medical procedure but eventually died due to complications during said procedure.