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TIL that carrier pigeons beat internet upload speed as late as in 2010. They actually sent pigeons over with USB sticks the same time they started uploading a video over broadband and the pigeons won.

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5XRk TIL a 2010 episode of the Saturday morning Batman cartoon was censored because, during a musical number, Catwoman, Black Canary and Huntress mocked the sexual prowess of their male counterparts…including Aquaman’s “little fish.”
GMkG TIL that in 1958 in Monroe, North Carolina, two black boys, 7-old David Simpson and 9-old James Hanover Thompson, were arrested after being kissed by a white girl on their cheeks in a neighborhood game. They were charged with molestation and sent to reform school.
gZD TIL the two leading cymbal manufacturers (Zildjian and Sabian) are founded on a sibling rivalry.
nWn9r TIL about Germanwings Flight 9525 where the co-pilot locked himself alone in the cockpit and flew the plane into the mountains killing 6 crew members and all 144 passengers onboard.
LkakV TIL that a man flew from Sheffield to Essex via Berlin because it was cheaper than train