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Today I learned that 95% of international internet traffic goes through undersea cables

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pwNG TIL Chile printed a number of 50 peso coins in 2008 that misspelled the name of their country as “Chiie”. No one noticed until 2009, at which point the director of the Mint lost his job.
yLbM TIL of the ’ Andrew Carnegie Dictum’ - to spend the first third of one’s life getting all the education one can, to spend the next third making all the money one can and to spend the last third giving it all away for worthwhile causes.
X0DxP TIL the Desmond Llewelyn, the original Q in the 007 movies, was a WW2 POW at Colditz Castle with the founder of the SAS.
bJ1Q TIL 50% of Toronto’s populace was born outside Canada
JYLWk TIL that males and females finish urination differently. Specifically, males contract a muscle called the bulbospongiosus several times to empty the urethra, whereas the female urethra is emptied by gravity, and females do not use this muscle to 'squeeze' out the urine like males do.