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TIL Bots are more active on the internet than people. Only 48.2% of internet traffic is human, and bad bots outnumber good bots.

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gME69 Today I learned that in 2014 the US finished it’s largest dam removal in history on the Elwha river in Washington state. The once dammed reservoir of over 100 years, now flows freely and is once again booming with salmon, birds, moose, and even new beaches being formed by sediment!
6OYQ TIL there is a free-market surgery center in Oklahoma that lets you know what the price is for a procedure ahead of time.
yVKQw TIL Jean-Pierre Blanchard had to complete the first English Channel crossing by air without his pants as he tossed them out to mid-journey to lower the weight.
5YZQp TIL that in 1939 an experiment was conducted at the University of Iowa on orphans in which the purpose was to induce stuttering in otherwise normally speaking children. Dubbed the "monster study", it caused lifelong psychological issues in some of the subjects.
78MaM TIL that a year on Venus is shorter than a day on Venus