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

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mxjZM TIL that in 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in space that was 100 times more powerful than Hiroshima. The aftereffects eventually caused six or more satellites to fail, as radiation damaged their solar arrays.
M7PB TIL that George Lazenby wasn’t an actor. He got himself a suit, a rolex and a new haircut, met the producer and made up movies he had been in, and got the roll as James Bond.
d84l8 TIL Before 1972 it was a felony for unmarried people to possess contraception such as birth control or condoms in the United States.
168KV TIL the 1900 Summer Olympics had mail coach driving as an equestrian event. The contestants drove mail coaches drawn by four horses each, with the winners determined by a jury.
b6j87 TIL an arbitrator ruled that a Meta executive-turned-whistleblower is prohibited from promoting her book “Careless People”