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TIL - Time Warner Is STILL Pushing For Metered Internet Access (JUNE 2012)

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VBj1B TIL The accusation of Thomas Jefferson fathering Sally Hemings' children originated from the Federalists hoping to win the election. Jefferson didn't respond publicly but did so privately. Here's a letter he sent to Robert Smith on July 1, 1805:
nej8o TIL when the human body undergoes an intense amount of stress, it feels drowsy or sleepy, because this is a natural reaction of the body to somehow escape the situation.
7rM97 TIL of Diren Dede, a 17-year-old exchange student from Germany, who entered the garage of Markus Kaarma looking for alcohol, and Kaarma deliberately set alcohol out as bait. Kaarma was sentenced to 70 years in prison for deliberate homicide.
xMEo TIL that there are two species of flowering plants growing in Antarctica, even though 98% of the continent is covered by ice that averages 1.9 kilometres (1.2 miles) in thickness.
MEe8 TIL No M1 Abrams tank has ever been destroyed by an enemy tank.