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TIL: Mount Everest has 3G mobile coverage, so you can browse Reddit when you reach the top.

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R7YJ7 TIL You Could Download Video Games From the Radio in the 1980s
PYvJJ TIL that in 1670, against a judge's instructions, a jury refused to find two men guilty. The judge held the jury in contempt; locked them up overnight without food, water or heat; and fined them. On appeal, the Chief Justice ruled that a jury could not be punished for returning the wrong verdict.
grOeA TIL that a Schandmantel was a torture device fashioned from wood and sometimes metal. Victims were made to wear this device in public where they would be insulted, humiliated and have rotten vegetables thrown at them. The Schandmantel was mostly used as punishment for poachers and prostitutes
l78ON TIL in 2006, Creed's lead singer Scott Stapp attempted suicide by jumping off a hotel balcony, only to be rescued 2 hours later by rapper T.I.
xV17D TIL J.K. Rowling was the youngest self-made female billionaire