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TIL the USA paid $200 billion dollars to cable company’s to provide the US with Fiber internet. They took the money and didn’t do anything with it.

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xlJw TIL Clay pipe fragments excavated from Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon home contained small amounts of cocaine, cannabis and myristic acid
EbxX TIL The Golden Temple in India (which is regarded as the holiest site in Sikhism), runs a free kitchen that feeds more than 100,000 visitors a day regardless of race, class or religion.
X0mmD TIL that bananas are curved due to their growth towards the sun. The rate of cell division on each side of the fruit, influenced by sunlight, determines the degree of curvature.
nejMb TIL There is a giant abandoned church that looks like a chicken in Indonesia
OoJ61 TIL Actor Martin Sheen has been arrested more than any other person in Hollywood (66 times for civil disobedience.)