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TIL that Netflix accounts for 32.7% of Internet traffic in the US

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QGNE TIL Lemmings don’t really commit mass suicide; that perception was created by a Walt Disney produced doc where the crew pushed lemmings off a cliff
DMQg TIL of the Wolf of Gysinge, a wolf that was held in captivity in Sweden in the early 1800’s. It later managed to escape and, within a three-month period, attacked 31 people (mostly children) and killed 12 with most of the deceased being partially consumed by the wolf.
VM9Pm TIL that during his research on heroin addicts for the film "Trainspotting" (1996), Ewan McGregor considered taking the drug, but decided not to. (Neon. p. 103)
0drOA TIL A Canadian Mental Health and Addiction Centre has a success rate of nine in 10 patients getting better from a psychiatric point of view and it only takes patients for whom all previous treatment attempts have failed
wLWlW TIL about the Byford Dolphin, an oil rig where in 1983 a diving bell carrying four men accidentally depressurized. It remains the only time in history where a human being was torn apart from rapid decompression.