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TIL that a quarter of the US doesn’t have access to dependable broadband. They still use dial-up

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QGQX TIL when “South Park” aired its anti-“Family Guy” episode, they received flowers from the crew of “The Simpsons”
ANxnw TIL the average high-school graduate will earn about $1 million less over their lifetime than the average four-year-college graduate.
Lka4Q TIL The animatronic Gremlins in the 1984 movie were originally going to be played by monkeys, but that plan was abandoned after the test monkey panicked when wearing a Gremlin head.
R5nOl TIL Haiti's only king, Henri Christophe, was born into slavery. Christophe had fought in the revolution and established a kingdom in Haiti in 1811. Ultimately Christophe established an unpopular system of taxation by forced labor and his reign ended in suicide in 1820.
nenEY TIL that when Al Capone discovered that three of his men were conspiring against him, he invited them over for dinner. After a night of drinking, Capone beat the men with a baseball bat and then ordered his bodyguards to shoot them, a scene that was included in the 1987 film The Untouchables.