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TIL that Comcast has ranked lower than the IRS in terms of customer satisfaction

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BrZZe TIL Starchy carbs, not a Paleo diet, were responsible for the rapid increase in size of the human brain around 800,000 years ago. Eating meat may have kickstarted this evolution, but cooked starchy foods, together with more salivary amylase genes, made us smarter still.
vwk7 TIL Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass murder who killed 77 people in 2011, threatened to go on a hunger strike in prison last year if the government did not upgrade his PS2 to a PS3.
9wM5M TIL Queen Elizabeth II and her husband were third cousins, both descended from Queen Victoria
x6ej7 TIL in 1965 U.S. Patent was issued for the "Blonsky Device" It was a centrifugal birthing table. A woman in labor was strapped to a high speed spinning table that would "gently force the baby out."
pyKA TIL that 29% of San Francisco’s air pollution comes from China.