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TIL that the inventor of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, has one regret: adding the double slash // to URLs. In retrospect, he says, it was totally unnecessary.

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WkV1L TIL The Mexican Drug War is considered to be one of the largest currently ongoing armed conflicts based on number of recent fatalities.
DQ1or TIL about "stotting", where some herbivores will jump high in the air with stiff legs to (presumably) signal predators that they are too fit to attempt to catch.
XZQk TIL the Ginger Gold apple was an inadvertent result of Hurricane Camilla in 1969.
v1AG7 TIL about Sarah Knauss, who was the oldest verified American ever, dying at age 119 on December 30, 1999. Her age was verified with the help of an 1891 US Census directory, a 1900 US Census entry, a 1901 marriage certificate, and both 1910 and 1930 US Census entries. All of these confirm her age.
Kx0E TIL that over a span of six years, pharmaceutical companies have sent 400 pain pills to West Virginia for every person living in West Virginia.