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TIL that Apple has a “secret police” called the Worldwide Loyalty Team that makes sure no employees leak something

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JElk TIL there is a ‘fake’ townhouse in brooklyn heights that’s actually a ventilation shaft for the subway.
QN0v6 TIL Morra (the number of fingers guessing game) was popular in Ancient Rome. The Roman's had a saying "he is a worthy man with whom you could play micatio in the dark" meant a man was honest. The game has since spread to Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
wLaZ6 TIL The board game Candy Land was made to entertain hospital-bound children during the Polio Pandemic
9YGwD TIL about Operation Kitona, when in 1998 Rwandan/Ugandan forces highjacked 4 civilian airliners, flew them to an airbase in western DRC where they amassed 3000 troops, then took over the Inga Dams and cut off power to Kinshasa. Thus began the Second Congo War, second deadliest conflict since WWII.
pRlO TIL Your body is constantly replacing old cells with new ones at the rate of millions per second. By the time you finish reading this sentence, 50 million of your cells will have died and been replaced by others.