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TIL In 1945, a mere 5 percent of France’s homes had a private, indoor bathroom

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W99B TIL There is an open-source social networking and sharing platform that is decentralized like TOR, has distributed file sharing like BitTorrent, and is “hardly possible to monitor from an external point of view”. It also has built in VoIP for voice chat.
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DOrp TIL Adele never made a music video for her #1 song “Set Fire to the Rain” because she was undergoing vocal surgery at the time the song was released. This is why an unofficial lyrics video of the song has gotten over 300 million views on YouTube; the most watched lyrical video of all time.
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