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TIL Canada is considered a third-world country by Netflix in terms of broadband internet rankings.

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BgmL TIL that Volkswagen was once the most valuable company in the world - for exactly one day.
MeMKA TIL researchers in Japan came up with a fire alarm that emits the pungent odour of wasabi to alert people with hearing impairments of a fire. They tested this on 14 subjects, and 13 of them, including 4 deaf subjects, woke up within 2 minutes. It turned out that the 14th subject had a blocked nose.
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