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TIL Most Comcast customers now have a 1TB home internet data cap & subject to browser hijacks

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69G6w TIL the 700 3rd class passengers on the titanic all had to share two bathtubs. One for men and one for women
04AR TIL that people living within 2000 meters of an airport have higher levels of lead in their blood, which is linked to lower IQ in children and a host of diseases. Unlike cars and commercial airplanes, recreational airplanes still use leaded fuel.
9M0Q TIL that there is a legend that the Ottoman Sultan intended to send £10,000 to Ireland to aid in the Starvation, but was stopped by Queen Victoria who had only sent £2000. Instead he sent £1000 and three ships full of food. A letter of thanks from the Irish is in the Ottoman Archives.
dDRod TIL that in 1933, FBI Director John Edgar Hoover learned of a namesake who had failed to pay a debt of $900 to a store in Washington. As Hoover was particular about paying his bills on time and so did not want to be associated with this disreputable behavior, he changed his name to "J. Edgar Hoover"
m1PGv TIL Tom Brady is ineligible for the College Football Hall of Fame