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TIL 74.7% of American homes have one or fewer options for broadband internet.

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6pG7 TIL that in the 60s the US struck a deal with the UK to buy an unpopulated Indian ocean island for a military base. The UK didn’t have an unpopulated island, so it forcibly expelled the inhabitants of the British Indian Ocean Territory until it WAS uninhabited.
1ar07 TIL when Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters broke his leg while performing, he designed a special "throne" that would allow him to play with his cast on rather than cancel their American Tour.
j67wQ TIL that when Lincoln called for 75,000 volunteers at the beginning of the Civil War, he did not include the states of California or Oregon because the transcontinental railroad hadn't been completed yet.
pnVA TIL 1.7-3.3%of fathers are unknowingly raising children that aren’t their own
VoV8 TIL The heart symbol was first used to denote love in the 1250’s. Prior to that, it represented foliage.