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

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ZppE4 TIL: The Barrett Model M82 is the official rifle of the State of Tennessee
wLYnE TIL: Nearly every copier built since 2002 contains a drive storing an copy of every document copied, scanned, or emailed by the machine.
NwYN TIL that the world’s largest cocaine producer is Peru. It has dethroned Colombia.
4kVbg TIL The Carpinteria Tar Pits at Carpinteria State Beach in Santa Barbara are one of five natural asphalt lake areas in the world, 2nd in size to and older than the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles. These tar pits date back to the Pleistocene Age (Ice Epoch), 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago.
7rJkr TIL that in the 1940s, the Idaho Department of Interior would capture beavers and parachute them into dry areas to even out the population density and to better distribute moisture via dam building.