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

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mxYNE TIL that the fig tree is pollinated by the fig wasp which then dies inside the fruit. The offspring then mate inside and the females escape to pollinate the next fig.
yALJ TIL Elephants have death rituals.
DQKpD TIL that the movie character Raymond from the Academy Award winning movie Rain man was based on real life savant, Kim Peek. He could simultaneously read the left side and right side pages of a book at the same time and had complete memory of over 12,000 books.
5YxK9 TIL that Benjamin Franklin's many inventions include the flexible urinary catheter, odometer and swimming fins. He never got parents and wrote, “we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
OoP7R TIL on 21 September 1956, a F-11 effectively shot itself down after firing a burst 20mm cannons while traveling supersonic speeds and running into it's own bullets.