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TIL That Japan has 2GB/s Internet
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TIL that the parents in Ferris Buellers Day Off met onset and actually got married after filming
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TIL of Strewwelpeter a German book to scare kids into being good. Ex. a story about a boy who never cleans himself & is unpopular, one refuses to eat his soup & withers away & dies, a girl plays with matches & burns to death, & 2 boys tease someone w/ dark skin & are then dipped in ink as a lesson
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TIL throughout its over 30 year run, Thomas & Friends has been narrated by celebrities such as Ringo Starr, George Carlin, Pierce Brosnan and Alec Baldwin.
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TIL “freeway” Rick Ross was a cocaine kingpin in 1980’s Los Angeles, at one point making 2-3 million dollars a week. The kicker? He was illiterate and his cocaine supplier was the CIA, who sold cocaine to illegally finance the Nicaraguan Contras.
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TIL In 1947 a man named Art Lacey bet his friend $5 he couldn’t buy a retired B-17 and turn it into a gas station. After a wild journey including a plane crash, alcohol smuggling, permit skirting, and a cross country trip, he won that bet and it stayed in place for more than six decades