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

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rRe4w TIL of Mount Kemukus, a hilltop shrine in Central Java where people go to have sex with other pilgrims who are total strangers, to bring goodluck.
KPBR TIL that crows recognise human faces and hold grudges against ones they don’t like
9YbAX TIL of Recy Taylor, a black woman who was kidnapped and gang-raped by 6 white men in Alabama in 1944. Despite their confessions and going to trial twice, the men were never convicted.
xV6Gb TIL that in 1975, Gary Dahl invented the pet rock. He took rocks from a Mexico beach and, over the course of only half a year, would sell each rock for $4, making himself over $1.5M.
X05g8 TIL that in medieval Europe, the Fashion Police were a very real thing indeed. They used to patrol the streets of Italy and enforce strict ‘sumptuary’ laws, issuing on the spot fines for over extravagance. Male offenders outnumbered female by 2:1.