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TIL Hackers Could Launch Their Own Satellites to Create an ‘Uncensorable Internet’.

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Z4jB TIL a 89 year old veteran developed a bladeless bird-friendly wind turbine in 2011
RBA6 TIL that “bride burning” accounts for one death per hour of Indian women, and is considered as rampant as it was 2500 years ago.
9wr7D TIL that the largest known object in the universe is the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall and it's 10 billion light years across.
NXynP TIL that the Bluetooth logo is a combination of two Viking-Era Younger Futhark runes that are analogous to the Latin letters “H” and “B”, initials of King Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson who united Norway and Denmark in 958 CE, and whose moniker is believed to come from the color of his dead tooth.
XE8D6 TIL of Vincent Chin, a Chinese-American man who was murdered in 1982 by two laid-off auto workers. Blaming the increasing popularity of Japanese cars in America for their redundancy, and the US' auto industry struggles, the men assumed Chin was Japanese, and beat him to death in a nightclub.