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TIL On August 16, 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global internet traffic dropped by 40%.

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OoXE6 TIL that the Superman actor Henry Cavil has been an avid PC gamer since childhood and even missed the call to play Superman because he was playing the game World of Warcraft
wX88 TIL that the rights to Peter Pan are owned by Great Ormond Street Hospital and that it is one of very few novels to have had its copyright extended due to the amount of funding it provides the hospital
ZjN4 TIL the first Black American to become a President is Joseph Jenkins Roberts, who was born a free man in Virginia, moved to Liberia, then became their first President in 1848.
6wX7 TIL of Ponso, a roughly 40-year-old chimp, who was dumped on an abandoned island off the Ivory Coast more than 30 years ago after being used for medical testing. He relies on the kindness of a nearby villager, Germain, who’s dropped off bananas and bread for him ever since he was left to die
w7P7 TIL that doctors in Ancient Rome used an early form of electrotherapy to successfully treat neurological conditions such as epilepsy and migraines. They administered the charges by placing electric torpedo fish on the patient’s head.