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TIL by the time a kid is 13, advertisers will have gathered on average more than 72 million data points about them.

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D1BgJ TIL that in 1975 George R. R. Martin wrote a short story titled "The Last Superbowl" which depicted the last game of real sports to ever be played due to the rise in popularity of simulated sports. The fictional game took place in January 2016 between the Green Bay Packers and The Hoboken Jets.
LkxEp TIL Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage created a combat robot. In its first two tournaments, they were asked to withdraw in exchange for co-champion status. In the first it had slung pieces of its opponents into the audience. In the second these pieces damaged the walls specifically improved for it.
X0g1E TIL the number of Indian seamen employed on UK ships was so great that the British tried to restrict this by the Navigation Acts in force from 1660, which required that 75 percent of the crew of a British-registered ship importing goods from Asia had to be British.
QJX5p TIL A heavily pregnant Moroccan woman was scheduled for a c-section. She fled the hospital after watching another woman die during the procedure. 46 years later she was diagnosed with a tumor. The 'tumor' turned out to be the calcified baby still inside her.
j6eGX TIL that the inscription "Arbeit macht frei" ("Work makes you free") above the entrance gate to the Auschwitz camp is no longer the original, which has been kept in a museum since it was stolen and found cut into pieces in 2009.