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TIL approximately 10 percent of the internet is kept secure using a wall full of lava lamps

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7bGX TIL that there’s an ordinary-looking stream in Yorkshire that’s actually a full size river compressed into a narrow channel, and it’s thought that no-one who’s fallen in has ever survived.
kJ5VB TIL that American soldiers during WWII often mutilated the Japanese and took their body parts as “war trophies”, Franklin Roosevelt was even sent a gift of a Japanese soldier’s arm.
bY4Z TIL the current SNL announcer is 96 years old
OkyX TIL the symbol for bluetooth is a bind rune made from the pre-viking runes of the tenth century king, Harald Bluetooth’s name.
4kaYb TIL of the 5th century BCE Long Walls of Athens, 6km long fortifications securing the city’s connection to the sea