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TIL China's rival to Starlink is called SkyNet, the same name of the Terminator's franchise AI system that conquered the world.

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BrXWx TIL Humans have a stronger bite than the common snapping turtle
0wrgR TIL of a man named Garry Hoy who died trying to prove to a bunch of students that the glass wall on the 24tn storey of the building he worked in was unbreakable. He threw himself at the glass wall which didn't break but the window frame gave way and he fell to his death.
r5nw TIL: NSFW - The last public execution in France by beheading (Eugen Weidmann) is on YouTube.
bQ5Q TIL That an American WWII Pilot escaped from a German POW camp and after three days of evading capture, commandeered a German Folkwolf 109 and flew himself and one other American Pilot to safety in the Netherlands. He was later quoted as saying “When I saw windmills, I knew I had made it,”.
bajj TIL that Febuary the 9th, 1964, almost half (45%) of all US television viewers tuned into the same program: The Ed Sullivan Show and The Beatles