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TIL that in the early 1980's, a newspaper accidentally switched the captions for Dennis the Menace and The Far Side comics twice. While some people found it humorous, other people found the captioning to be deeply disturbing and the newspaper apologized for the errors.
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TIL that undersea cables are the backbone of internet transmission. Although satellites are used when cables aren't practical, underwater cables will be what we rely on for the next few decades
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TIL The volume control on the Tesla Model S goes to eleven.
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TIL some (native/wild) animals are more common in the suburbs than in rural wild areas (at least in N America). After noticing this myself, I wondered if suburban animals were just "easier to spot" or there really were more so I did some research. Depending on the species, there really are more.
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TIL that Marcus Garvey died after reading his own obituary in a newspaper. He’d suffered stroke in January 1940, and then read his own obituary in the Chicago defender; it described him as "broke, alone and unpopular". Apparently as a result, he had a second stroke and died.