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TIL that Comcast sent bills and eventually collection notices to customers that lost their cable, phone, and internet equipment due to Hurricane Ike. The largest reported charge was $1000, but that bill was reduced to $931 to make up for the interruption of her phone service during the storm.

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QJRld TIL there was a pandemic in the early 20th century that caused life-long stupor and Parkinsonism in survivors, with many sleeping during the day and waking at night. It resulted in the deaths of millions of people worldwide. Called "Sleeping Sickness", the causative agent has never been found.
rNna0 TIL the interesting number paradox, which suggests that if we classify natural numbers as "interesting" or "uninteresting," a contradiction arises: the smallest uninteresting number becomes interesting simply by being the smallest in its set. This implies that every natural number is interesting.
vPD5j TIL The “Grave with the Hands” in Roermond, Netherlands are two tombstones on opposite sides of a wall connected by two hands holding each other. This is for a Protestant/Catholic couple who had to be buried in separate sections of the cemetery.
vPVmK TIL the biggest bank robbery in history was Saddam Hussein's son just walking inside the Central Bank of Iraq the night before US invasion, with a note handwritten by his father, loaded almost $1 billion into three tractor-trailers in span of two hours and left. $350 million of that was never found.
8KgG TIL that after being run through by a Japanese officer, Fazal Din VC took the sword from the officer and proceeded to kill him and two other Japanese soldiers with it before dying.