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TIL that Madagascar has faster internet speeds than Canada

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MYMV TIL Beer steins historically have lids to keep bubonic plague-causing flies out of the consumer’s beer
N74O1 An international team of scientists sequenced a protein crystal located in the midgut of cockroaches in 2016. The reason? Scientists think cockroach milk could be the next superfood.
P1dbL TIL that since the medieval period Singapore has only had one monarch (Yusof Ishak) as an independent state; it became a republic the same year it split from Malaysia.
LkG8v TIL Wahl invented the electric hair clippers 100 years ago! and people are still afraid to trim their bush with it.
1aPP TIL an ancient Roman poem was deemed so explicit that a full English translation was not openly released until the late twentieth century. The offending line? “I will sodomize you and face-fuck you”.