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TIL In 2024, bots made up a bigger proportion of global internet traffic than humans for the first time

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8e9Pa TIL the Tulip Mania led to the laws that enabled futures contracts to be convertible into option contracts, a common investment vehicle today
0V8R TIL that fire burns in a sphere without gravity to stoke it
WbJ4 TIL that an early Chinese surgeon named Hua Tuo used Cannabis mixed with wine as an anaesthetic. As a result the Chinese term for “anesthesia” (mázui 麻醉) literally means “cannabis intoxication”.
jGgv TIL the lifespan of the largest brain corals is 900 years
m14ny TIL Purple is the rarest colour on national flags. In fact, of the 196 countries of the world, virtually none of them use purple on their national flag.