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TIL that in Finland citizens legally have the right to internet connection, similar to getting education and heath care.
https://bbc.in/2GMC9k3

Submitted April 27, 2019 at 11:29AM by RefugeeDutch_Syrian
via reddit http://bit.ly/2XOc9KL
TIL In Deadpool, Stan Lee played a DJ at a Vancouver strip club. He later revealed that he actually filmed his part in a studio and was disappointed not to be in the vicinity of the topless dancers
http://bit.ly/2vmeQXK

Submitted April 27, 2019 at 10:25AM by thepresident45
via reddit http://bit.ly/2ULkFrS
TIL that there is a third world trade center tower in China, looking exactly like the ones in New York.
http://bit.ly/2GJnIMy

Submitted April 27, 2019 at 01:47PM by lennart_hyland
via reddit http://bit.ly/2PGirtf
TIL that in 1997 Pope John Paul II had nominated St. Isidore of Seville to be the patron saint of the Internet, a seventh-century theologian and encyclopedist who tried to record everything ever known.
http://bit.ly/2UIu83t

Submitted April 27, 2019 at 03:29PM by Bomber_Max
via reddit http://bit.ly/2ZEZgEv
TIL the largest moth in the world, the Hercules Moth, has a wingspan up to 36cm (14in) and spends up to two years in its cocoon, but only lives two to eight days as it has no mouth and ultimately dies of starvation.
http://bit.ly/2ILALjO

Submitted April 27, 2019 at 04:15PM by CapnFancyPants
via reddit http://bit.ly/2IZmyiD
TIL that Divine Brown known for her tryst with Hugh Grant in 1995 reportedly made $1.6 M due to the publicity, sent her kids to private school, bought a home in Beverly Hills and changed her life around.
http://bit.ly/2L7OK5A

Submitted April 27, 2019 at 05:14PM by rrwins
via reddit http://bit.ly/2WbR9NB
TIL In oder to set a precedent for the future of the office, George Washington chose to be called "Mr. President" instead of the senate proposed noscripts of "His Excellency" or "His Highness the President"
http://bit.ly/Ni4Xlq

Submitted April 27, 2019 at 07:30PM by HovitoBurrito
via reddit http://bit.ly/2ZGQS7p
TIL The opening lyrics from the Lion King’s ‘Circle of Life’ are sung in the language of the Zulu, an ethnic group of Southern Africa. It translates to “There comes a lion. Oh yes, it’s a lion.”
https://r29.co/2IO8VTV

Submitted April 27, 2019 at 06:58PM by step2kid
via reddit http://bit.ly/2vr1iKF
TIL that the average delay of a Japanese bullet train is just 54 seconds, despite factors such as natural disasters. If the train is more than five minutes late, passengers are issued with a certificate that they can show their boss to show that they are late.
https://bbc.in/2vrbliR

Submitted April 27, 2019 at 09:53PM by jacathinker
via reddit http://bit.ly/2PzsUGG
TIL about Witold Pilecki, a polish agent who volunteered for Auschwitz to feed information to the West about the Holocaust, one of the first to report it. He was executed by the Soviet Union for his Western connections
http://bit.ly/1kn3pSn

Submitted April 27, 2019 at 05:55PM by tommycthulhu
via reddit http://bit.ly/2UIHWej
TIL Hugh Hefner tried to make sure his beneficiaries won’t blow through his money after his death. His will states that his children will be cut off “if the trustees reasonably believe that (the beneficiary) routinely or frequently uses or consumes any illegal substance"
https://ind.pn/2VrecHd

Submitted April 27, 2019 at 11:06PM by thepresident45
via reddit http://bit.ly/2L7Mf3d
TIL, In 2008, the country of Rwanda banned plastic bags and, in early 2019, banned all single use plastics.
http://bit.ly/2IO8h9k

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 01:18AM by snowdemon483
via reddit http://bit.ly/2J20Bzl
TIL The Russo Brothers were given the reins of the MCU after Marvel president Kevin Feige saw and loved the Community episode "A Fistful of Paintballs"
http://bit.ly/2UYfslD

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 12:51AM by thoriginal
via reddit http://bit.ly/2GEqBxT
TIL once a year in parts of England flying ants migrate. Seagulls catch and eat them and then become drunk off the ants' formic acid, causing them to crash into buildings and moving cars.
http://bit.ly/2XTqs0r

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 03:32AM by jstohler
via reddit http://bit.ly/2GMTcSW
TIL there was a comic book series chronicling an alternate Superman timeline where he lands in the Soviet Union instead of the United States.
http://bit.ly/1OjvSL7

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 04:33AM by hotdogmaggot
via reddit http://bit.ly/2IWnswl
TIL When Bill Gates' daughter started kindergarten, he dropped her off at school in the mornings to help out his wife, Melinda. Within a few weeks, seeing this, other dads at the school began to drop their children off in the mornings instead of their wives.
http://bit.ly/2UzYLYJ

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 06:53AM by kathythesecond
via reddit http://bit.ly/2V1qXbR
TIL there is a 1420 book that was found to have cat piss on one of its pages. The author of the manunoscript even wrote on the page "Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer... and beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come."
http://bit.ly/2ZJe0Ca

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 07:46AM by shaka_sulu
via reddit http://bit.ly/2PCbjhd
TIL Harvard Associate Professor Dr. Lester Grinspoon tried to prove pot was harmful to get his friend, Carl Sagan, to smoke less. He then wrote a book on the lies behind pot and prompted a study into using THC for chemo associated nausea and vomiting, after seeing results in his son with leukemia.
http://bit.ly/2vrJ23P

Submitted April 28, 2019 at 06:04AM by QuantumMechan1c
via reddit http://bit.ly/2PABDrY