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TIL automated traffic surpassed human activity, accounting for 51% of all web traffic in 2024

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pA14 TIL that police shot and killed at least 94 pet dogs in the U.S. in 2000. By 2008, that number spiked to 681. And through October 2014 there were at least 510 dog shootings by cops.
6O77 TIL that a man served 31 years in jail for a crime he did not commit, and the state compensated him only $75.
xVn77 TIL that Henry VIII pestered Anne Boleyn for seven YEARS before she slept with him.
jN0la TIL that computers apparently might not be adding to our productivity nearly as much as a lot of inventions from the 1800s...apparently things like running water were a MASSIVE deal. Saved people like 8 hours of labor a week.
kwae TIL that sounds can still be heard in space despite the lack of air. Radio waves exist, emitted by planetary bodies, that can be detected by the human ear. NASA released audio files demonstrating this.