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TIL that there are over 40 million slaves living right now

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d9yQ TIL that 45 years ago today, on October 29, 1969, at what can justifiably be called “The Birth of the Internet”, a UCLA computer connected for the first time via phone line to a Stanford one, sending the first host-to-host message, logging on with the two letters: “LO” at 2230 PST, before crashing.
X0Ylj TIL that Ocarina of time is based on a movie
YpngW TIL 250,000 of the 697,000 U.S. veterans who served in the 1991 Gulf War are afflicted with a chronic unknown illness causing fatigue, muscle pain, cognitive problems, rashes and diarrhea.
DXNp TIL, in 2005, the Tri-Cities government decided to start their own internet service. Comcast and SBC fought back with “push polls” asking residents “Should tax money be allowed to provide pornographic movies for residents?” They defeated the referendum and Comcast raised cable rates over 30 percent.
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