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TIL that all our issues with open internet/net neutrality and the lack of provider options comes from an FCC ruling on March 14th, 2002. The man who made that decision is now head of the cable industry trade group.

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R7y18 TIL between 6,000 & 9,000 years ago, the people of the Levant decorated the skulls of their dead with plaster, gave them shells for eyes, and painted intricate details of hair and moustaches on them. It's not known why.
R5v77 TIL about the "de Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle" which was expected to become the US' standard reconnaissance machine. Unveiled in 1954, it required the unlucky user to stand on a platform above four whirling blades, which he then steered by tilting his bodyweight in the direction he wished to move.
drLr TIL a Canadian 2 ½ year-old toddler froze solid in -22ºC weather after being locked out of her house for five hours, yet she was warmed and revived by doctors.
e046n TIL of the Secession of the Plebs. A form of protest where Rome's non-aristocratic citizens would leave the city en masse leaving the aristocratic Patricians to fend for themselves.
xV9B7 TIL of Loulis, a chimp who learned to communicate trought sign languange, but he wasn't taught by humans: he learned the signs from his adoptive mother, Washoe, the first chimp to ever learn sign languange