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TIL 99% of internet data travels along a handful of undersea cables

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xM80 TIL James Blunt recorded his first album while living with Carrie Fisher. ‘Goodbye My Lover’ was recorded in her bathroom!
W70l4 TIL that a toast sandwich is something that exists. There was a recipe for it in the ‘invalid cookery’ section of the 1861 Book of Household Management and in 2011, it was recreated by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
7rVlZ TIL that a cow once escaped a slaughterhouse by smashing through a metal fence and breaking the arm of a man that tried to catch her. She swam to an island where she lives alone.
wNB7 TIL that due to a law passed in 1953, it is illegal in Ohio to arrest a person on Sunday, on the Fourth of July, or on your way to a place of worship, unless the crime is a felony, treason, or is a breach of peace.
Z9jQ TIL People knew that the Earth was round in Columbus’ times. They just wouldn’t give him a charter for a voyage because they knew that Asia was much further away than he thought.