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TIL in 2014, bots outnumbered humans on the internet for the first time in history, making up 60 percent of all web traffic

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ELWo TIL people sneeze differently around the world. In English we say “Achoo!”, Russians say “Apchkhi!”, the Polish say “A-Psik!”, and the Japanese say “Hakushon!”.
1vl7 TIL that it is likely there are 5 to 10 times more stars in the known Universe than there are grains of sand on all the world’s beaches but that a single grain of sand has more atoms than there are stars in the known Universe.
m80y TIL There is a Muppet Christmas Special where Kermit meets the Fraggles, Swedish Chef tries to cook Big Bird, Muppet Babies are the old home movies, Cookie Monster eats all the Christmas cookies, and Jim Henson does the dishes.
xeZg TIL Napoleon Bonaparte’s favorite lieutenant, Marshal Michel Ney, was granted permission at his execution to order the firing squad to fire. Ney told his men, “Wait for the order. It will be my last to you.”
MQ4K TIL All humans are born “premature” because their large brains wouldn’t have fit through the birth canal