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TIL that in 2007, Sprint sent a letter to their worst pain in the ass customers and told them that they were waiving the early termination fee and canceling their accounts.

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1aAmd TIL Farmers need 214 liters of water to grow 1 kg of tomatoes. The Dutch use only 4 liters and are the 2nd largest exporter of food in the world.
NYy6 TIL of Excited Delirium Syndrome which “ causes sudden and unexpected death”, it is not recognized by the American Medical Association, and every single person who has ever “died from it” was in police custody at the time of their death.
XEo5k TIL that if one astronomical unit (roughly the average distance between the Earth and the Sun) were scaled to equal one inch, then one light-year would be almost exactly one mile (within a few feet).
1BdW TIL all pandas are owned by China. They rent them out to zoos for $1mil/year each with minimum of 10 years
OZRe TIL that 555 is the Thai variation of LOL, as 5 in Thai is pronounced ‘ha’, three of them being “hahaha”