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TIL, In 2007 Comcast installed software/equipment on its networks to selectively interfere with customers’ TCP/IP connections which throttled upstream p2p bandwidth

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8aMpX TIL the parents of 17-year-old Jesse Shipley who had died in a car crash only learned that authorities had kept his brain when his classmates went on a field trip to a morgue and saw a jar labeled Jesse Shipley that had a brain in it.
rlm4 TIL, Koreans reckon the pregnancy period as one year of life for infants, and age increments increase on New Year’s Day rather than on the anniversary of birthdays. Thus, one born immediately before New Year’s Day may only be a few days old in western reckoning, but two years old in Korea.
VMYb4 TIL the United States Department of Justice has filed a forfeiture complaint in federal court to seize the rights to the movies “Dumb and Dumber To” and “Daddy’s Home,” on the grounds that the movies were financed using money stolen from a Malaysian government investment fund.
ZPlv TIL that former US Secretary of State, political scientist and Nobel prize winner Henry Kissinger quoted saying “Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.” He never denied saying that.
grODL TIL that many Union veterans of the US Civil War worked in the marketing campaign for the memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, canvassing to sell subscriptions to the book that the dying and destitute general wrote to provide an income to his family. Grant's memoirs became a bestseller of the 19th Century.