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TIL 13% of Americans do not use the internet. Of this group, about a third gave as their reason that the internet is too difficult to use.

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x69lb TIL about 'Blue Peacocks,' where the British military tried to deter Soviet aggression using a nuclear landmine and almost used chickens to detonate it.
op77 TIL That 70 years ago, waves of mass-suicide swept Germany at the end of WWII. Whole families would tie themselves together and go into the water or hang their children first and then themselves.
Er0d TIL During WW2, captured German officers, sent to Britain as POWs, lived in luxury in Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust, events in Berlin, Hitlers madness and V2 rocket bases.
BryOe TIL George Washington died from cynanche trachealis, aka the croup, mainly due to over zealous Doctors. Washington feeling very sick asked his overseer, Albin Rawlins, to bleed him. Doctors bled him four more times over the next eight hours, with a total blood loss of 40% along with other remedies.
R7bmQ TIL in the original British 'House of Cards' tv series, there is a character who comes out as gay and resigns immediately after being spotted in a bar with an underage boy