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TIL the weight of the entire internet is calculated to be around 50 grams

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vlm4 TIL Greenland has a university, with 14 staff and 150 students. It is so small because the Government pays for students to have a free university education anywhere in Europe or North America.
GAxvG TIL Cuckolding is a sexual fetish or fantasy where an individual derives sexual pleasure or arousal from watching their partner engage in sexual activity with another person.
mx5YR TIL Rosalind Franklin is the unsung hero of DNA research. Her X-ray Crystallography allowed her colleagues Watson and Crick to accurately characterize the double helix. Many believe she should’ve shared in their Nobel prize.
YpDVP TIL that on 9/11/2001, North East Air Defense Sector commanding officer Kevin Nasypany remarked "The hijack's not supposed to be for another hour" because they had scheduled a simulation involving politically motivated asylum-seekers hijacking a plane & landing it on a Cuba-like island
eDmJ TIL garbage collectors in NYC make $144,000/yr, up from $79,000 a decade ago.