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TIL Internet mostly went down on April 25, 1997 because someone accidentally routed traffic to their network.

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W7kvB Today I learned that Jenny Hanivers are taxidermied rays, skates, or guitarfish. The broad, flat creatures are then heavily altered and desiccated to create a gruesome cryptid.
ZoYG TIL starting in 2017 San Francisco will require new buildings to have solar panels
RpN4 TIL there’s a coast-to-coast hiking trail that connects Delaware and California
Y7KDG TIL the corpse of an astronaut monkey is preserved at Smithsonian Air and Space Museum with its hand placed over its heart
a9a9 TIL Air Force One is any plane carrying the President, not the name of the plane