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TIL BBC does an online edition in pidgin English

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4X1QN TIL To compose a picture of a black hole in 2019, 5 petabytes of data were used, which took half a ton of hard drives. Part of this data was physically moved by plane. This allowed a transfer of 14 gigabytes per second, which was faster than if data would be transferred through the internet.
7rYap TIL a guy bought a motel to watch guests have sex from the attic above their rooms. 30 years, never got caught. Even witnessed a murder.
l8M7 TIL there is a Calvin and Hobbes search engine
MeRea TIL A Texan Judge sentenced a woman, who had abused two horses to the point of emaciation and severe illness, to be on a diet of only bread and water for the first 3 days of her 30-day jail sentence. She was also required to have two blown-up photos of the ailing horses in her cell.
eGX4 TIL In 1990 a man jumped into a Detroit Zoo Chimpanzee enclosure to rescue a drowning chimp