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TIL: Netflix uses the ‘Chaos Monkey’ which intentionally breaks things on their live site so they are forced to build multiple redundancies in their systems

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546P TIL Matt Stone (co-creator of South Park) is only an O away from being an EGOT (emmy, grammy, oscar, tony award winner)
OooyR TIL bison hunters did more to defeat the American Indian nations in a few years, than soldiers did in 50 years.
yQ45l TIL no matter what height a squirrel falls from, it will almost always survive due to its relatively low terminal velocity.
b6oV4 TIL that Billings, MT has the highest rate of depression in the United States (31% of the population).
loLeV TIL bar-tailed godwits, a type of bird, breed in Alaska, and then migrate south for the winter - they fly to New Zealand in one non-stop trip which can take up to 9 days, not even stopping to feed. The round-trip migration for this subspecies is over 29,000 km.