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TIL Epilepsy kills as many people per year as Breast Cancer
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TIL, when Paul Reuter developed his own news agency (Reuters News Agency) he used carrier pigeons to give Berlin news from the Paris stock exchange, as they were speedier than trains.
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TIL most internet data is not transferred across continents by satellites. Instead, 97% of intercontinental data is transferred through hundreds of thousands of miles of cables at the bottom of the ocean.
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TIL that the fourth movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (better known as "Ode to Joy") has lyrics, based a poem by Friedrich Schiller, also titled "Ode to Joy" ("An de Freude").
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TIL that Krusty the Clown was originally supposed to be revealed as being Homer Simpson’s secret identity but the writers thought the idea was too complex.
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TIL the pervy roots of Neil Diamond’s ‘Sweet Caroline’. The song is based on a 12 year old Caroline Kennedy.