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TIL more Africans have access to cell phone service than piped water and electricity.

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6oPZ TIL that owls have serrations on the edge of their flight feathers, allowing an owl’s flight to be practically silent. Some fish-eating owls, for which silence has no evolutionary advantage, lack this adaptation.
vPmo7 TIL after Han official He Jin was assassinated by eunuchs, angry troops led by Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu set the palace on fire, slaughtering any males without facial hair. It was so extreme that young men were forced to flash themselves to avoid being mistaken for eunuchs and killed.
n1eo TIL of the unintended effect the film “Black Hawk Down” had on the Somalis in Mogadishu. They cheered during a screening of their bootleg copy every time an American was killed, and some were even proud of how they were portrayed in the film.
dDyMj TIL that a man named Robert Anderson is credited for inventing the first Electric car sometime between 1832 and 1839.
4kKZJ TIL The James Bond film "Die Another Die" was boycotted in South Korea because of it's portrayal of North Korea