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TIL there is a Merrica river… in Australia

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4YZX TIL Since the dawn of civilization, roughly 12,000 B.C., to 2003 A.D., only 5 exabytes (5,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes) of data has been created. Now, with the rise of the Internet’s influence in our daily lives, we produce this amount of data every two days.
Zpaxa TIL that Skinner, the psychologist responsible for operant conditioning (training animals using reward and punishment), also tried to help the WWII war effort by training pigeons to help guide missiles
ePb6 TIL that Israeli secret service, the Mossad, hatched a plan in the 1950s to bomb areas in Egypt where Americans gathered, and make these attacks appear to be the work of Muslim extremists. The plot was discovered and it’s known as ‘The Lavon Affair’.
AD5ka TIL that the largest Francophone metropolis in the world is not Paris, but actually Kinshasa (pop. 12.69 million), the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo
ANPLo TIL During World War II, a Great Dane named Juliana was awarded two Blue Cross Medals.