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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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0wprp TIL about Airstan Incident, In 1995 the Taliban used their MiG fighter jet to force a Russian IL-76 cargo plane to land at Kandahar Air Field. After a year of captivity, the crew tricked the Taliban into performing a routine maintenance on the plane, and then flew away, under fire, to the UAE.
WgV9 TIL there is a snake in Africa whose venom causes your blood to not only stop clotting but to come running out of every hole on your body. Its called the boomslang snake.
geND TIL The “real Mafia” did not allow the producers of “The Godfather” to use the word Mafia in the movie. They even sent “family” members to the set to monitor filming. That’s how producers discovered Lenny Montana aka “Luca Brasi”
l7NNa TIL In 2006, Disney traded ESPN sportscaster Al Michaels to Universal for the character rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Walt Disney's original creation before Mickey Mouse.
W7w1B TIL: That Christine McVie wrote the song "Songbird" in just half an hour at around midnight, but didn't have anyone around to record it. To ensure she did not forget the chord structure and melody, McVie remained awake the entire night and played the song for producer Ken Caillat the next morning.