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TIL the FCC Received Over 13,000 Complaints about Comcast’s Data Caps within Months of Rolling Out

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ZpGOG TIL that Granny Smith apples originated near Sydney, Australia in 1868 and were only first imported en masse to the US in the 1970’s.
VMd8p TIL a gang of brilliant French thieves used a vacuum cleaner to steal $800K from a bunch of grocery stores. The stores used a pneumatic tube system to convey their cash payments to their safes. They broke in and used the vacuum cleaner to suck the money out of the store vaults.
xyo1 TIL the 27th amendment to the Constitution, which restricts the ability of Congress to raise its own pay, was ratified in 1992, more than 200 years after the first state approved it in 1789.
m7JP TIL on the set of the ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ TV show, while the crew was moving a neon-orange mannequin prop, one of the mannequin’s arms broke off revealing it was a human body. The body was identified as Elmer McCurdy, a criminal who had robbed a train and died in a shoot-out with police.
0GNj TIL 85% of the worlds serial killers live in the U.S. [According to an FBI Behavioral Unit study]