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TIL 1Gbps internet in Romania costs €8($9.84) per month

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kJB0d TIL that Brad Whitford, rhythm guitarist for the hard rock band Aerosmith, was forced to miss the first month of the band's 2009 summer tour due to surgery. Whitford suffered internal bleeding after banging his head while getting out of his Ferrari.
R7KWw TIL: Arthur Venditti, an in-house designer for the Parker Brothers, was a fan of drag racing and recalled that the trucks that pushed the dragsters to the starting line had bumpers called “nerf bars”. Thus, leading to the famous NERF name.
M7Nj0 TIL: “EGOT” is an acronym that was coined by actor Philip Michael Thomas. It gained wider recognition after being introduced on the comedy series “30 Rock”
OoLY7 TIL officials in New York City have killed over 70,000 birds to date since the US Airways Flight 1549 accident (also known as the "Miracle on the Hudson"), in order to prevent similar accidents
kOkRE TIL of the Fermi Paradox: There's a high possibility that intelligent alien life exists but no actual evidence of it.