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TIL AT&T wanted to know why a town in Kansas was building a 1Gbps network when it already offered 6Mbps DSL

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7ryW7 TIL that the name "Ivan the Terrible" reflects the older English usage of terrible as in "inspiring fear or terror; dangerous; or powerful" and not the more modern connotations in English where terrible means "defective" or "evil".
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rNAvw TIL Mississippian Native Americans had a cosmological concept similar to Norse mythology, complete with a World Tree
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