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TIL Two brothers in Brooklyn started their own ISP when they couldn’t get reliable service in their neighborhood.

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roLM TIL that Archaeologists in 2011 discovered skeletal remains of Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
PZVw TIL in 2010 during a heat wave Siberian bears began to dig up cemetaries and eat the corpses of humans
LkLJr TIL that Britain drained 45 trillion dollars in today's money during their rule in India leaving the country dirt poor. By running what is known as a scam-theft on a grand scale.
oky7 TIL Stephen Hawking’s father was a medical researcher and encouraged his son to get into medicine. But Stephen turned down biology as it didn’t seem to explain things at a fundamental level. He got into mathematics which seemed highly impractical to his father.
9YgdG TIL that AAAA batteries exist.