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TIL That more than 50% of the US internet traffic is carried by Northern Virginia’s data centers.

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9wJV6 TIL The native population of the entire continent of Europe is shrinking with no country having a fertility rate at replacement level (2.1 children per woman). France has the highest at 1.79 but all the other most populous Euro countries have rates of between 1.15 and 1.6.
kJalg TIL Major League Baseball player Keith Comstock is best known for being traded for a bag of baseballs (which he had to deliver himself), and for featuring on a baseball card where he's pictured being hit in the nuts
EALw TIL After being beaten and arrested by police for being gay, Stonewall rioter Raymond Castro was placed in the back of a paddy wagon. The wagon was already filled with three members of the Mafia, who reassured him “don’t worry kid, you’re ok in our book.”
1a9dd TIL that the USSR knew as early as 1940 the US was working on the A-Bomb. Not through espionage, but because they noticed that top US scientists had stopped publishing papers. Thus "Secrecy itself gave the secret away"
4Xama TIL that the voice ACTRESS Elizabeth Daily (aka E. G. Daily) who voiced Tommy Pickles (the bald baby from Nickelodeon cartoon Rugrats) sang a song for SCARFACE