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TIL since wi-fi is nearly nonexistent in Cuba, people use the “Offline Internet”, passing hard disk drives around from person to person

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Bllk TIL The Guinness Book of World Records Holds the Record for Being the Book Most Often Stolen from Public Libraries
AG94 TIL there is a size of beer keg called a “wall.” It holds 9.2 gallons, or 99 bottles of beer.
X5m6 TIL that a school needs to redeem 1,150 soup can labels for a single regulation sized basketball. Assuming you’re buying Chunky soup at $2.00 a can, Campbell’s is donating less than a half penny per label.
Aw6o TIL that the Largest Nuclear Power Plant in the world is in Ontario, Canada and that their security force has won the U.S. National SWAT Championship four times.
gMZKX TIL that Apatheism is the belief that if a god exists, or not, it does not matter, because the effect is the same. Therefore there is no point engaging in worship or even positing the question of existence of the god at all.