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TIL ThePirateBay plans to host their servers in orbit from space using “GPS-controlled drones and far-reaching cheap radio equipment”

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YR0W TIL if each star in our galaxy had a trillion planets, with a trillion people living on them, and each of these people has a trillion packs of cards and somehow they manage to make unique shuffles 1,000 times per second since the Big Bang, they’d only be starting to repeat shuffles now.
Vox4 TIL: Liberal Americans have 41% fewer children on average than conservative Americans.
OGN91 TIL Julius Caesar was the first living Roman to put his own face on a coin in February 44 BCE, a move widely seen as a sign of royal ambition.
eOjJ TIL: Netflix employs a team of “taggers” who are paid to watch Netflix and tag the content.
5Ye6r TIL on his last day at school, Sir Richard Branson's headmaster told him he would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. The man is now worth around $5.1 billion (as of November 2017 by Forbes)