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TIL that Comcast sued and lost to stop a city from building its own fiber network, Comcast was then forced to upgrade it’s own services.

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BrmlW TIL that Rick and Morty is based on the original animated series named Doc and Mharti, Back to the future too. And the origin is epic.
6Ed47 TIL that astronauts have reported the experience of seeing flashes while they are in space, even when their eyes are closed. These flashes are due to cosmic radiations affecting the retina.
gwG7 TIL The first air-to-air combat attempts were made by throwing bricks and grenades from plane to plane during WWI.
XERrk TIL that from 2006 to 2020, 5,605 American service members were killed in training accidents. This represents 32% of all reported active-duty military deaths for that time period and is double the percentage of troops killed in action.
kJ75B TIL “Ped Xing” is not Chinese, but actually short for “Pedestrian Crossing”