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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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0wMD1 TIL that Montana is the only US state constitutionally mandated to teach and preserve Native American history and culture.
wLEG7 TIL that after we die and our heart stops beating and our body moving our brain still works and we may even be conscious enough to hear our own death announced by doctors.
oRVm7 TIL an Australian drugs-related jury trial costing over A$ 1 million with 105 witnesses was aborted when it was discovered that four or five of the twelve jurors had been playing Sudoku instead of listening to the evidence for most of the trial.
ZpvQo TIL despite surviving an assassination attempt while running for president again, Theodore Roosevelt did not win re-election!
OoLLY TIL 29th February 1900 is an accepted date in Microsoft Excel, despite not existing. It is a deliberate feature to maintain compatibility with a bug created 37 years ago