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TIL that it is estimated the global IP traffic in 2022 will exceed all internet traffic up to 2016

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R71g1 TIL there is a font called "Public Sans" that is available for personal and commercial use
OglX TIL To “spruce it up” originally meant “to make it out of a material from Prussia”.
oB057 TIL of Canadian Air Marshal Charles Roy Slemon, who in 1960 prevented nuclear war when NORAID misidentified the rising moon as 1000 Soviet Nuclear missiles, by asking where Khrushchev was
OGEpe TIL about the Schäffer affair - in 1815, German doctor Georg Anton Schäffer was sent by the Russian-American Company to retrieve cargo from a ship that had run aground on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Instead, he tried organizing the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
XEK7D TIL After officially being prohibited for many years, eating beef in Japan was legalised in 1871 as part of an effort to introduce western culture to the country