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TIL I learned that Chattanooga’s taxpayer-owned internet is 50 times faster than the average American’s, and as fast as Hong Kong’s, the fastest in the world

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7Nvx TIL in the 50s, teenagers having a stable monogamous relationship (“going steady”) was considered edgy and frowned upon by parents and the church as amoral. Instead they encouraged their kids to go out with different people every weekend. (read column on the right)
7kkr TIL that a team of Danish comedians went to North Korea to mock them, using the cover of being Danish a culture exchange group and they got away with it and made a movie.
ebVJ TIL Britain has invaded, had some control over or fought conflicts in 171 of the world’s 193 countries.
0r9L TIL a Nigerian ‘scientist’ 'proved’ that being gay was wrong by using magnets, after which he promptly demanded to be given the nobel prize for his research.
oMo8 TIL on 3rd July 1988 the US Navy shot down a civilian passenger flight killing all 290 on board, including 66 children and 16 crew.