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TIL It took 4 hours for pigeon to transfer 4GB over 60miles - in the same time the ADSL had sent only 4% of the data.

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69GN8 TIL the only Olympic Medalist to become disabled and then win a Paralympic Medal is Hungarian fencer Pál Szekeres. After winning a bronze in 1988, he lost the use of his legs in a traffic accident and won gold in wheelchair fencing in 1992.
Nxxb TIL that Scotland once used a currency called ‘The Unicorn’
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