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TIL Philadelphia Threw a WWI Parade That Gave Thousands of Onlookers the Flu

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LQkRp TIL about Tony Labranche, a New Hampshire politician who, elected to the NH House of Representatives at age 19, is among the youngest state legislators in the country
V7em TIL CERN Data Centres process over 1 petabyte of data everyday! upto 10gb a second!
koe5 TIL that people in Denmark both pay the highest taxes in the world and are the happiest people in the world, according to several surveys, have 6% unemployment and a nominal GDP that’s 25% higher than that of the United States.
Wkayo TIL the amount of data in the "digital universe" can't be quantified, but at the start of 2020 was estimated to be at around 44 zetabytes (4.4 × 10^13TB)
X8jE TIL that The Catholic Church who formerly denied Heliocentrism, today has its own observatory located just outside Rome. The observatory is fully supported by the Holy See and its staff double as research scientists and Jesuit brothers.