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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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BrZ0k TIL that contrary to common misconception, hunters and gatherers are mostly well fed, rather than starving.
XEodP TIL in 2015, when Daniel Craig was asked that would he do another Bond film after Spectre, he said he would “rather break this glass and slash my wrists” and would only come back “for the money”. A year later he apologized and said “If I were to stop doing it, I would miss it terribly."
dDX9 TIL a sociopathic 10 year old girl killed two boys. One of the crime scenes was described by the inspector as “There was a terrible playfulness about it…and somehow the playfulness of it made it more, rather than less, terrifying”. She was convicted and then released at the age of 23.
yOww TIL Confederates emigrated (in the largest exodus in US history) to Brazil, where they remain to this day. Their Brazilian descendants eat peaches, wear hoop skirts, and sing “Dixie”.
WkA7A TIL the term "Cletus Safari" - (the kind of news article in which the writer makes an expedition from some enclave of sophistication—New York City, let's say—to go talk to the exotic folk out in the hinterlands to get their take on an issue of interest.)