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TIL that internet is really scarce in Cuba and people gather at designated public places to access it

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Eg9J0 TIL The last two states to be added to the US were admitted in 1959, only 64 years ago. Many current members of congress were teenagers when the flag had 48 stars.
99dm TIL Glasgow Ice Cream Wars were turf wars in Scotland in 1980 between rival criminal Organisations selling drugs and stolen goods in ice cream vans.
vP1d8 TIL 'Ballooning' spiders are able to take off and fly through the air, without wind, by using a single line of web ejected into the air to propel them up the naturally generated electric fields in our atmosphere
Brmnr TIL in 1987 Iraq attacked the United States ship USS Stark and killed 37 sailors
gG6b TIL Stanford & Harvard grads have built more $1Bn businesses than grads of the 10 next-best universities combined.