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TIL 129 million Americans have only one option for broadband internet service in their area – equating to about 40 percent of the country.

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Kv9B TIL out of the 10,000 members of the Communist Party USA in 1957, 1,500 were FBI informants
p8mLA TIL in WWII, Italian doctors made up a disease to save Jews from the Nazis. "Syndrome K" was said to be a deadly, highly contagious, disfiguring disease and the doctors saved at least 20 Jews by quarantining them.
JGPl TIL of the “Hygiene Hypothesis”, which states that a kid’s environment can be too clean to stimulate a kid’s immune system resulting in those kids getting sick more than kids brought up in households in which the parents don’t constantly douse everything/everyone in disinfectant & hand sanitizer.
oByJW TIL Mount Rushmore because it’s carved in solid granite and within a stable ecological place may last 100,000-200,000 years after the last human on earth (Brin, 2015, 1:22).
ne6Bd TIL Mamoru Samuragochi is a deaf Japanese composer, who known as the “digital-age Beethoven” and creator of Onimusha’s OST. But, it later turned out that all of his works in 18 years were actually written by a ghost writer. And his deafness is all fake