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TIL that in 2013, Google went down for 5 minutes and in that time, the global internet traffic dropped by 40%

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5YggP TIL The U.S. supplies 94 percent of the paid blood plasma used around the world and nearly 80 percent of the plasma centers in the U.S. are located in America’s poorer neighborhoods.
OGQG7 TIL for-profit bail only exists in 2 countries (US and Philippines). Elsewhere, paying money to leave pretrial detention is considered "a debt trap for poor defendants."
9gar TIL that New York City officials admitted they forgot about a stalled train during the 2010 blizzard, which left dozens of passengers stranded for 7 hours. The subway chief said at a hearing they simply “forgot about that train.”
wLe9M TIL about a variant of chess called Dunsany's, or Horde chess in which one player's pieces are set up identical to regular chess, while the other player starts with a horde of 32 pawns.
5k88 TIL in 19th century America, the Irish were believed to be inferior because of a high rate of imprisonment