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TIL in 2011, a 75 year old Georgian woman accidentally cut off internet access to almost all of Armenia while scavenging for copper to sell as scrap

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N7WBQ TIL "There's roughly 100 firefighter arsonists convicted every year in North America and all of them are serial arsonists"
5YORp TIL of Shizo Kanakuri, a japanese athlete who collapsed during the 1912 olympics marathon. Embarrassed, he went home without notifying race officials. He eventually came back to finish, with a time of 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.3 seconds
wPD1 TIL that in 2004 Walmart transferred six new employees to one of their stores prior to a union vote, to help sway the voting in their favor.
oOE8 TIL Disney World is on the 2nd Floor. The Ground Floor is an above-ground system of tunnels that moves employees around the park.
OGlaY TIL that a man inserting a bottle to his anus worsened tensions that led to a war