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TIL On Aug. 16, 2013, Google Incorporated suffered an outage for five minutes. All of its services, including Google Search, YouTube and Google Drive, experienced this outage. During that brief time window, the world’s Internet traffic dropped by a monstrous 40%.

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xDAB TIL black cats are considered to bring good luck in Japan.
9y66 TIL that before the Statue of Liberty, the US was personified as Columbia, which is where the name District of Columbia comes from.
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9YmBm TIL the Finnish government recently invested €98 million in a new central library. Finnish writers receive library royalties—they are almost as much per borrowed book as the royalty for each paperback sold.