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TIL the human eye with transmits data at roughly the same rate as an Ethernet connection

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DKnD TIL that Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, once wore a rhino costume while climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to raise money for a charity to save endangered rhinos.
KOJD9 TIL that during a plague outbreak in Romania in 1813, plague sufferers were buried alive. One undertaker squad reported "we collected 15 dead today, but only buried 14, because one of them ran away."
QNE6k TIL in June 2019 Germany taxed sanitary products at 19% and books at 7%, so a company started packaging and selling Tampons as books at the 7% tax rate and there was nothing authorities could do about it.
a8wdA TIL astronomers have found an exoplanet with rings similar to Saturn
kbW TIL there is a staffed underwater post office where people have been mailing postcards for years.