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TIL Comcast charged a customer $60,000 in fees for cancelling a contract for services that were never installed and ten months past due. The fees were apparently credited after a media outlet’s involvement.

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XEd86 TIL that there is an international event known as "Field Day". It's held on weekends in June ever since 1933, where about 30,000 civilians just talk to each other over different styles of radios to maintain emergency preparedness.
OnL6 TIL John Grey, author of “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus”, has his doctorate from a now defunct degree mill, and is divorced from his first wife, who is also a marriage counselor.
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