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TIL that from 1992-2014, $400 Billion dollars was given by the US Government To Telecom companies for Fiber Optic Internet that doesn’t exist

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1apPW TIL that in 1973, Marcus Foster, the first black Superintendent of the Oakland Unified School District, was murdered by the Symbionese Liberation Army, because they believed he supported the plan to create a student identification card system that would help keep non-student drug-dealers off campus.
oBmEW TIL an indigenous Mexican woman from the Tarahumara community won a 50km race featuring 500 runners from 12 countries while wearing a skirt and sandals made from tyre rubber
vPaXR TIL Many Blind People are having problems with falling asleep, because their bodies can't differentiate day from night, therefore their melatonin levels are disregulated.
0dpBL TIL the studio behind the movie Se7en proposed a sequel called "Ei8ht" where a suddenly psychic Morgan Freeman chases an also psychic serial killer. The idea was dropped after director David Fincher replied, "I would be less interested in that than I would in having cigarettes put out in my eyes."
nGlB TIL that as part of their training, 18 month old circus elephants are chained together and made to stand still for 23 hours a day