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TIL Google Maps calculates their traffic by having all iPhones that have Google Maps open and Android phones that have location services turned on send anonymous bits of data back to Google

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6n18 TIL Total US credit card debt is going to surpass $1 Trillion by Christmas.
P1Zje TIL Hamsters’ livers are shockingly efficient at dealing with alcohol, cannot from an alcohol overdose. Their livers break it down so quickly that their blood never gets enough alcohol in it to become fatal.
lGpN TIL that the company that created Zyklon B, the gas that was used to kill millions of Jews in the Holocaust, still exists as a pest control company.
ao6o TIL Scottie from Mythbusters quit welding and became a dental hygenist
x5go TIL: Valve got so tired of ‘the cake is a lie’ memes that they made a point to keep the cake out of Portal 2.