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TIL that the internet speed on the ISS is faster than the average internet speed in Australia.

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y6gM TIL that a water resitant watch classified for 30 meters wouldn’t even survive swimming or showering.
4jJN TIL that the lamp in an IMAX projector is so bright that if it were on the moon we could see it from earth with the naked eye.
D1YVV TIL the military under Richard Nixon was ordered not to react to any orders from the president due to his depression.
KXyQ TIL that illegal immigration from Mexico to the U.S. has decreased by 80% since 2000
rNEPy TIL that in 1894 the U.S. Army killed 30 American citizens during the Pullman Strike. Union organizer and future socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs was called "an enemy of the human race" in a New York Times editorial, and imprisoned for mail obstruction.