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TIL that you spend 40 minutes of each day blind
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TIL in 2009 a pigeon named Winston raced Telkom, South Africa’s largest ISP, to see who could deliver 4GB of data to a location 60 miles away the fastest. By the time Winston arrived with the 4GB flash drive, Telkom had transmitted only 4% of the data.
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TIL that Saskatchewan, Canada became the first jurisdiction in North America to recognize the Holodomor, in which ~7.5 million ethnic Ukrainians were starved under Stalin's Soviet regime
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TIL that the Coliseum in Rome was turned into a privately owned fortress, complete with towers and garrison (1084)
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TIL Suicide accounted for 20% of U.S. Military deaths last year. (Page 24)
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TIL that the keyboard player on Tom Jones' "It's Not Unusual" was a (pre-fame) Elton John! The guitarist? Jimmy Page!