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TIL that using Skype in Ethiopia carries a 15 year maximum jail term

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bX69 TIL that crocodiles can easily survive losing a limb or being badly wounded because of their superior immune system and the restriction of blood flow (heading: Anti-biotic)
m1jKp TIL during WWII Minority U.S. Soldiers Were Picked For Mustard Gas Experiments
OGOw4 TIL when actor Patrick Stewart starred with a young rookie called Tom Hardy in Star Trek : Nemesis (2002), he never expected to hear about Tom Hardy again. He now admits he was glad to be proved wrong.
pYJJb Today I learned there there is no evidence that Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla hated each other.
r76M TIL there’s a line of 70 foot long concrete arrows that bisects the country longitudinally all the way from San Francisco to New York City. They’re from the pre-digital age and were installed by the Federal gov’t in 1924 with 50’ tall towers with rotating gas-powered lights to aid lost pilots.