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TIL Canada deemed “Third World” in Broadband Internet rating by Netflix.

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o8ZA TIL less than half of all tickets for major sport & music events go on sale to the general public
6EeLQ TIL that Singapore was forcibly expelled from Malaysia becoming an independent country against their wishes.
RWAQ TIL That NASA Plans to Build A Radio Telescope on the Far Side of the Moon by the 2030s.
ADkJ7 TIL HBO had to hire a team of 160 lawyers before releasing its film "Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief" beause of the Church's litigious nature