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TIL the background noise you hear in cellphone conversations is actually generated by your mobile provider to ensure you that the person on the other end didn’t hang up on you.

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9YxJD TIL about Captain Midnight, a Florida man who hijacked HBO’s satellite to protest their high prices.
LkrM0 TIL the first use of Biological Warfare, and the cause of one of the first recorded epidemics ever, occured when the Hittite Empire released rams infected with Tularemia into enemy lands over 3500 years ago.
JDNv TIL that even the largest earth-based telescopes cannot see any of the objects left behind by the astronauts of the Apollo moon missions
kOBj7 TIL that Harris Wittels was a writer for the Sarah Silverman show, Parks and Recreation, Eastbound and Down, and Masters of None. Amy Poehler called him the “funniest person [she] ever met”. Harris was also the drummer in the band Don’t Stop Or We’ll Die. Harris died of a heroin overdose in 2015.
QJx0E TIL a US treasure hunter found over $500M worth in gold and silver from Peru sunk in the Atlantic ocean. A legal fight forced them to return the booty to Spain. Some of the coins reportedly found are still "missing".