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8GYV TIL Verizon received $2.1 billion in tax breaks in PA to wire every house with 45Mbps by 2015. Half of all households were to be wired by 2004. When deadlines weren’t met Verizon kept the money. The same thing happened in New York.
9wZ07 TIL Grand Island and Navy Island, near Niagara Falls was a proposed location for the UN headquarters
4pYN TIL A paraglider was sucked into a storm for over 40 minutes, passed out and reached a height of 32,000ft - higher than Mount Everest.
5v6D TIL In 1983, a 61-year-old potato farmer named Cliff Young won a 544 mile endurance race because he ran throughout the night while the younger ‘professional’ athletes slept.
nWKMd TIL the reason that Nazi uniforms were so stylish is they were made by Hugo Boss