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TIL 19 states in America have laws in place to discourage building of local/community Internet services because big ISPs lobby against it.

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RvGj TIL That Fraggle Rock was HBO’s first original TV Series
DQLWp TIL In 1998, business mogul Bill Daniels donated his private mansion, called Cableland, to be used as the official residence of the mayor of Denver. It has never been used in this role.
AN64l TIL Kathleen Caronna was in a month-long coma after a Thanksgiving Day parade float knocked a lamppost onto her head in 1997. She bought a nice apartment with the settlement money and 9 years later, Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his plane into her high rise and the engine landed in her bedroom.
Z8OQ TIL a church in Monroe, Ohio built a 62-foot tall statue of Jesus. The statue was struck by lightning and burned to the ground.
4XrZw TIL Anne Frank hid some dirty jokes in her diary. One of them reads: "Do you know why the German Wehrmacht girls are in the Netherlands? As mattresses for the soldiers."