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TIL that in 2011 a 75 year old Georgian woman cut off internet access to the whole of Armenia when she severed a single cable while digging with a shovel

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OGkGg TIL that doctors a hundred years ago used to withhold informing the patient of their serious condition, even including if the patient was dying
Z877Q TIL elephants evolved to keep their testicles inside their body because predators kept biting them off.
N7dZN TIL Tesla and Newton both were celibate and died as virgins. Einstein slept for 10 hours a day.
VBXoG TIL that the 'inner-voice' of most life-long & completely deaf people is seeing/feeling themselves acting out sign language
GADDg Today I learned Francis Pegahmagabow was a canadian sniper during ww1 with 378 confirmed kills making him the deadliest sniper of the first world war.