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TIL once America Online Instant Messenger (AIM) held 52% market share. By June 2011, that had collapsed to only 0.73%.

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rR4ld TIL Costa Rica is an uninterrupted democracy since 1948, has no army, is the 12th-happiest country in the world and produces 98% of its electricity from renewable sources.
1O14 TIL a whale known as “the world’s loneliest whale” is the only one known to produce “songs” at 52Hz. Although the sonic signature is that of a whale, the frequency is unique in no other whale uses it to answer back. His songs were first detected in 1992. A 50-day search for him will start this Fall.
XEkwQ TIL the reason why clocks run clockwise. They do because in the Northern hemisphere that's how sundials cast shadow
jvjR TIL Shenzhen police force drivers who illegally use high beams to stare into their blinding lights for 1 minute.
MYW0 TIL the first documented cases of cancer were found on papyrus manuscripts in Egypt dating back to 3000 BC. In these manuscripts, 8 cases of breast tumors are mentioned that were removed by cauterization with a tool called the fire drill. The writing says about the disease, “There is no treatment.”