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TIL that bots 🤖 drive ~40% of all internet traffic.

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R5BN9 TIL The company that produced the original animated "The Hobbit" (and Nausicaa), Topcraft, would later become Studio Ghibili.
yQABl TIL that the phrase "Keep calm and carry on" was originally coined by the British in 1939 to boost the morale of the public in preparation of mass air attacks on cities during WW2. A copy of the original poster was discovered in 2000, and since then, it has become trending once more.
ygX TIL World War 2 is technically still going on, as Japan and Russia have yet to sign a peace treaty with each other. Additionally, both countries continue to lay claim to the Southern Kurile Islands - efforts to diffuse the situation have been unsuccessful.
bD8E TIL That U.S President John F. Kennedy read 600 words per minute, more than double the speed of an average person
bpr9 TIL Brother Theodore was imprisioned in Dachau until he signed over his family’s fortune. He went to Switzerland but was kicked out for chess hustling. Einstein helped him escape to the US and he became a janitor in Stanford where he beat 30 professors simultaneously. Then he became an actor.