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TIL broadband in the US is only available to half the people and the fcc is fine with numbers that over represent subscribers.

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NGne TIL That Johnny Knoxville of Jackass got inspiration for his stunts by watching episodes of Tom and Jerry
788NO TIL: In Valencia, Spain, after a devastating flood in 1957 the Turia river was diverted away from the city center and created a successful green space for all on the riverbed which was completed in 1969.
pBVG TIL that as a Jew, Jesus would have had short hair, but artists eventually gave him long hair to make him seem more god-like, in the image of the Roman gods Jupiter and Neptune
d8DAK TIL, that in Zoroastrianism, the atonement for killing a water-dog (otter) is to kill ten thousand frogs, ten thousand snakes, then thousand tortoises, ten thousand... in it's place.
v1o47 TIL About Frank "Cannonball" Richards, a carnival performer whose act involved being shot in the stomach by a cannonball. He lived to the age of 81.