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TIL That Japan has 2GB/s Internet

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8eEw8 TIL Harley Quinn was meant to apear once in Batman the animated series. Then Paul Dini changed his mind when he thought givin the Joker a foil would bring out some of his personality traits.
D1Nne TIL In 1929, W. Forssmann performed the first human heart cath on himself. He tricked the OR nurse, put himself under local anesthesia, inserted a catheter into his arm, then walked to the X-ray room to see if it reached his heart. He was fired from the hospital, but awarded the Nobel Prize in 1956.
9Y8n6 TIL that in Oklahoma there exists a ghost town so polluted from lead mining that leftover minerals have caused the rivers to turn red. Children who went swimming in the arsenic-filled water thought they were just getting sunburnt - in reality, they were being covered in chemical burns.
N7pOQ TIL that during filming for Rocky IV, Stallone told Lundgren to hit him for real and got hit so hard it put him in the ICU for 4 days.
OojW4 TIL a German stranger in a street interview predicted Germany's 7-1 win over Brazil in 2014