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TIL that “in 2005, a Canadian teleco – Telus – blocked its customers from visiting a pro-union website during a labor dispute. Telus just happened to be the company "at the heart of the dispute.”

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B0pe TIL a man had the hiccups for 68 years straight. They finally stopped one year before he died.
PYljZ TIL Firefighters use wetting agents to make water wetter. The chemicals reduce the surface tension of plain water so it’s easier to spread and soak into objects, which is why it’s known as “wet water.”
kvY5 TIL that in the 1805 Constitution of Haiti, only blacks could be citizens, and whites were prohibited from owning land.
jNgPv TIL that the CIA funded Various African Civil Society Organizations (Such as the American Society of African Culture) to counter communism within the African Diaspora.
epEyb TIL there's a legal move in chess that allows you to move 2 pieces at once.