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TIL in August 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and, as a result, took 40% of all internet traffic with it

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ndJ9 TIL A woodpeckers tongue wraps around its head to prevent it from getting headaches when slamming its face into trees
4XybJ TIL that in 2020 it's been 22 years since That 70's Show first aired in 1998 which took place in 1976 which was 22 years before 1998.
KQYw TIL Leó Szilárd, physicist directly responsible for the creation of the Manhattan Project, wanted to have a test explosion that could be witnessed by Japanese observers for them to surrender while sparing lives
DQ9P TIL the income gap between the US and Mexico is the largest of any two adjacent countries in the world
lojBG TIL vegetarianism is such an old concept that up until 1850, vegetarians were called Pythagorean because the cult of Pythagoras was entirely vegetarian