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TIL In the Town of Green Bank WV it is illegal to use any WiFi and cellphones.

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ne059 TIL In 2013, a gold cast of Nelson Mandela's hand was sold for $31,000. Five years later, the owner sold it for $10 million.
9YkdQ TIL Pearl Jam's song Jeremy is based on the real-life classroom suicide of Jeremy Wade Delle of Texas, who was released from a mental hospital and sent back to school -- reportedly, once his insurance money ran out he was deemed "cured" .
Wg9A TIL that Oxford University was founded in 1249, some 75 years before the first appearance of the Aztec civilisation in 1325.
0wZZR TIL there was once an underground network of pneumatic mail delivery tubes in New York City. Each tube could carry between 400 and 600 letters and traveled at 30-35 miles per hour.
0wQp5 TIL that English and Norwegian share not only the same syntax, but also have very similar pronunciation / sounds and even shared words (although usually with different meanings). English is classified as western Germanic but it fits all the characteristics of a northern Germanic language.