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TIL that 65% of America has only one or two options for internet providers.

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R7QA6 TIL Legoland employees are referred to as “model citizens”
Z8Oeo TIL while bombing Munich, a B17 got 2 engines knocked out & was denied permission to land in Switzerland. On the flight back to UK the crew jettisoned anything weighty, including their parachutes. They lost another engine but landed in Dover. The plane had 600 Bullet Holes
47DX TIL France owns a small island off the coast of Newfoundland that is entirely comprised of rock (St. Pierre). The streets are carved into the rock, and instead of cemeteries, inhabitants carved tombs into the island which are there to this day.
J1a08 TIL that jazz composer Duke Ellington had synesthesia, hearing sounds as colors and seeing colors as sounds
6DZ TIL that some animals have a ‘third eye’ part of the pineal gland that helps regulate circadian rhythms