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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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R598j TIL the skeleton of Josef Mengele, the German doctor who conducted horrific experiments on thousands of Jews at Auschwitz, is stored at the São Paulo Institute for Forensic Medicine, where it is used as an educational aid.
p8yZN TIL a man spent two years, planting thousands of flowers, to help bring his blind wife out of depression
AB9g TIL of Chlorine-trifluoride, a substance so unstable it sets seemingly inflammable objects like concrete on fire. In the 1950’s, some was accidentally spilled in a warehouse and burned through a foot of concrete while simultaneously releasing a deadly cloud of gas that corroded anything it touched.
pYPpp TIL in 1937 Jewish Paul Lamfrom owned the largest shirt company in Germany. It was seized by the Nazis and he fled to Portland, Oregon and started a hat company named after the local river, that company became Columbia Sportswear.
YpEx TIL no red dwarf star has ever died. Every single one formed since the beginning of time is still alive.