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TIL Comcast disabled fast-forwarding for their on-demand service to force people to watch commercials

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9YOG TIL that there is a shipwreck in the Thames Estuary containing at least 1,400 tonnes of TNT high explosives including 2,000 cases of cluster bombs and if it exploded could be one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever and create a small tsunami.
78gEP TIL John Lennon didn't sign paperwork for the the dissolution of the Beatles until December 1974, while he was at the at the Disney World Polynesian Resort in Florida.
VMlo8 TIL, Aboriginal Australian tribes have no words for left, right, forward, or backward in their language. They only use cardinal directions to describe locations of everything around them, knowing where north and south are at all times, essentially being human compasses
5kJB TIL that in 1923, Frank Hayes became the first ever jockey to win a horse race despite being dead. He died from a heart attack mid-race but somehow his body stayed strapped onto the horse and he crossed the finish line in first place, beating 20-1 odds.
Bg6XW TIL the first woman to run for President was Victoria Woodhull in 1872