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wZ61 TIL there has been more human casualties in the Mexican Narcotics wars than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined.
a87My TIL In 1979 Fotomat started renting videos, 6 years before the creation of Blockbuster Video. Customers would order from a catalog, call the local Fotomat, and pick it up the next day for a 5 day rental at $12.95. They had exclusive contracts for Disney and Paramount films. Discontinued in 1982.
M7j4V Today I learned that 95% of international internet traffic goes through undersea cables
Y79AZ TIL Unix time, a concept originating from the Unix operating system developed in the 1960s, represents timestamps as the number of seconds elapsed since January 1st, 1970 at 00:00:00 UTC This method simplifies parsing and utilizing time across various systems by representing it as an integer.
Jg41 TIL there is a spike in break-ups that occurs before Valentines Day, Spring Break, Summer, and the holidays.