Safari and .dat files?

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Just noticed that in the ~/Library/Safari folder there may or may not be some files starting with .dat (you need to be able to see hidden files from the Finder to see them — or using ls via terminal ). Does anybody know what these files are?

For instance:

drwx—— 11 user1 staff 330 Feb 26 16:15 ./
drwx—— 53 user1 staff 1758 Feb 12 11:33 ../
-rw——- 1 user1 staff 6148 Feb 26 15:42 .DS_Store
-rwx—— 1 user1 staff 0 Nov 27 10:37 .dat0101.9e7*
-rwx—— 1 user1 staff 0 Nov 27 10:55 .dat0101.bb9*
-rwx—— 1 user1 staff 0 Nov 27 10:55 .dat0101.bc2*
-rwx—— 1 user1 staff 0 Nov 27 10:56 .dat0101.c69*
-rwx—— 1 user1 staff 49259 Feb 26 10:56 Bookmarks.plist*
-rw-r–r– 1 user1 staff 21706 Feb 21 10:26 Downloads.plist
-rw-r–r– 1 user1 staff 115816 Feb 26 16:15 History.plist
lrwxr-xr-x 1 user1 staff 9 Feb 26 15:42 Icons@ -> /dev/null

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