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TIL: In July 2011, a survey found that Flash Player had 99% market penetration in desktop browsers in "mature markets", while Shockwave Player claimed only 41% in these markets

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VJA4 TIL Pakistan, Iran, and 12 other Muslim countries support the teaching of evolution, including human evolution.
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ADdAn TIL that the USSR were seriously considering a nuclear strike on China in 1969, before Nixon stated that the USA would nuke 130 Soviet sites in retaliation