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TIL the UK has 1% of the world’s population but 20% of its CCTV cameras - one for every 14 people

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v1414 TIL of Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt, an American businessman who died when the RMS Lusitania sank in 1915, after giving his lifejacket to a young mother and her baby. He knew that he could not swim and that there were no other lifeboats available at the time. His body was never recovered.
LQjQZ TIL that three Leicester City players including the son of its former manager created a scandal that involved taping an orgy in Bangkok with local prostitutes before the seasons' start. The replacement manager then went on to win the Premier League as extreme underdogs at 5000/1 odds.
4e86 TIL that during a CNN online chat with President Clinton in 2000, a prankster managed to log in as the President following a technical glitch and typed “I wish to see more porn on the Internet”.
a0jy TIL that the way some gay men speak is actually a documented phenomenon.
gMLwW TIL that there are many more units of data bigger than a terabyte. 1 Yottabyte is the biggest unit of data and it's so big that it is 1208925819614629.25 Gigabytes or 1208925819614 Terabytes of data.