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TIL NASA’s internet speed is 91 GB per second

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GYWDg TIL that formed FBI director Louis Freeh once said, “Ask the American public if they want an FBI wiretap and they’ll say, ‘No’. If you ask them do they want a feature on their phone that helps the FBI find their missing child they’ll say, ‘Yes’.”
16BOO TIL that $100,000 were wired to 9/11 hijacker Mohamed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh at the insistence of Pakistan's ISI Lieutenant General Mahmud Ahmed and he was meeting with Porter Goss and Bob Graham in Washington over breakfast discussing Osama Bin Laden when the attacks occured.
woNr1 TIL that all the gold ever mined could fit into just 3.5 olympic swimming pools
b5Np TIL Onions are the only crop to be completely banned from trading futures in. In the 1950’s a man named Vincent Kosuga acquired so much power that at one point he controlled 98% of onions in America. Farmers and buyers were so angry that Eisenhower banned the entire market.
LQBKQ TIL A class-action lawsuit claims that people who enjoy the night sky with telescopes have been consistently overcharged. The amateur astronomy market in the US is 80% controlled by two companies and the telescope global market is predicted to grow to $294 million annually by 2025