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TIL U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly, and Unfair because a few powerful media conglomerates put profit ahead of the public interest

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VB1YQ TIL The African Island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe has a 500 year tradition of drama called 'Tchiloli', where just one play, the 16th century 'The Tragedy of the Emperor Charlemagne and the Marquis of Mantua' is ever performed.
DyeD TIL In 2013, Russian artist and activist Petr Pavlensky sat down naked in Red Square and pounded a nail through his scrotum and into the cobblestone street. He called it a “metaphor of apathy, political indifference, and fatalism of Russian society.”
7LLM TIL that Viking metal band Amon Amarth takes its name from Tolkien’s Middle Earth. It is the Númenórean name for Mount Doom.
lQMN TIL A web developer went viral after he Rickrolled Vine by breaking their 6 second limit by hacking their code and uploading an entire 3 minute version of Rick Astley’s immortal classic - “Never Gonna Give You Up”.
ADkp4 TIL thst all St. Patrick chased out of Ireland was paganism, and snakes have never existed in Ireland