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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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Brkky TIL of the 1993 Storming of Kempton Park World Trade Centre, when more than 3,000 far-right paramilitaries stormed the venue where multi-party negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa were being held.
a89yZ TIL Men spend 7 hours each year 'hiding' in the bathroom
5Yp4r TIL about Katie Bouman, a computer scientist who at the age of 29 led the development of an algorithm for imaging black holes known as Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction using Patch priors (CHIRP). In April 2019 the first ever image of a black hole was acquired.
Y1Nx TIL: An Oregon elementary school cancelled its Pay-to-Pee Policy. The program punished children for needing to use the restroom outside of their scheduled bathroom breaks.
DaDD TIL: The CN Tower in Canada is actually the tallest building in the westen hemisphere, and was the tallest building in the world for 30 years. Other building owners figured they could make two classifications, “Tower” and “Building”, so they could sound as if they were taller.