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TIL A Woman only got her internet fixed after complaining to the CEO of Comcast’s mother

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nem5b TIL that late actor Michael Clarke Duncan was assigned to protect Notorious B.I.G. on the night he was killed, but Duncan switched assignments at the last minute. The death caused Duncan to quit working as a bodyguard and pursue acting full-time.
X046 TIL that Norway with it’s 5 million population, consume 9% of the annual Pepsi Max sales. That’s 22 litres per inhabitant
Pjbn TIL the populations of the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are 26.3% and 26.8% female, respectively.
oByOr TIL that legendary crime fighter Eliot Ness was promised by Al Capone that $2,000 would be on his desk every Monday morning if he turned a blind eye to his gang's bootlegging activities ( $33,000 a week in 2018 adjusting for inflation). Ness refused the bribe, was penniless when he died in 1957.
ANDx4 TIL During the trial of Robert James (1936), one of the rattlesnakes used to murder his wife escaped into the courtroom causing hysteria. James ultimately was convicted of first-degree murder and ended up being the last man hanged in California.