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TIL 99% of internet data travels along a handful of undersea cables

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DQBMV TIL that scientists discover an average of 18,000 new species of life every year.
x6X87 TIL that one of the worst droughts in recorded history occurred in Texas during the 1950's. Huge lakes and rivers dried up completely, grass nearly died out leading to massive dust storms, and 50% of Texas' farming industry was dead by the end of the decade.
X0Lyj TIL "borderline personality disorder" was named to describe patients who seemed on the borderline of psychosis
VMrPp TIL that the Emperor Fountain at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, was named in honour of a potential visit by Czar Nicholas, was designed to be higher than the one at the Czar's palace at Peterhof, and reportedly reached a height of 300ft through a gravity fed design.
VM7Rk TIL in 1857 Charles Lockock, believing there to be a cause-effect relationship between masturbation and seizures, began to treat his patients with potassium bromide which was known to reduce sex drive. In doing so, he serendipitously discovered what would become the first drug therapy for epilepsy.