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TIL over 100 million Americans don't have internet or have unreliable internet!

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d8grZ TIL The word "checkmate" is derived from the Persian shāh māt ("the king is helpless").
16MpP TIL the movie 'Cape Fear' was originally developed by Steven Spielberg, but he eventually decided it was too violent and traded it to Martin Scorsese in exchange for 'Schindler's List', which Scorsese had decided not to make.
7rKob TIL that Frito-Lay ran a market research study in the 90s to rebrand Doritos, which resulted in making the corners of the chips rounded so they broke less and produced less scraps at the bottom of the bag.
ADRMl TIL Eleven and Twelve do not follow the teen pattern because they come from Old English terms that mean "one left after ten" and "two left after ten," or "ain-lif" and "twa-lif," due to the fact that these numbers were used commonly, unlike the other teens, and therefore developed much earlier.
epd0E TIL that the character Krusty the Clown from the animated series The Simpsons was originally conceived as a parody of the character Homer. This explains the striking resemblance between the two characters.