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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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P7bG TIL the Melbourne, Australia holds the biggest Italian population outside of Italy and the largest Greek population outside of Greece
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rR6Dy TIL about Diederik Stapel, a Dutch Social Psychologist who falsified data in over 30 publications. "Discoveries" he made using falsified data included the finding that meat-eaters are more selfish than vegetarians.
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