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TIL that 19 “states have imposed some kind of fence against community broadband. Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, and Texas have established a full ban.”

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nDnW TIL that when faced against 120 war elephants, Timur the Lame stuffed his camel’s satchels with wood/hay, lit them on fire and prodded them forward. The sight of flaming camels charging at them caused the elephants to turn around and stampede their own lines.
8exN4 TIL Ada Lovelace died from uterine cancer at the age of 36
yVKxa TIL A 2009 survey concluded 65% of Americans educated up to a high school level believe they possess above average intelligence despite data showing only 47% do. Alternatively, 73% of college educated respondents feel they possess above average IQ while data shows 84% do.
gMjJ8 TIL of the Treaty of Canandaigua between the USA and the Iroquois in 1794. Article 6, requiring the US to provide $4500 in goods every year, is honored to this day, but Article 2, protecting the land of the Oneida, was mostly ignored and their land fell from 6,000,000 acres to just 32 acres in 1920.
9poX TIL the city of Scranton, Pennsylvania is so close to bankruptcy that its government officials (including the mayor) are paid $7.25/hr