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TIL Facebook acquired Onavo VPN to track user's full online activity and app usage details. With this, they could tell Instagram's Stories crippled Snapchat Stories even before Snap made it public.

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97aM TIL April Fools day in French is “Poisson d'Avril” (literally fish of April) and children try to stick a crudely drawn fish on each others back in secrecy.
pDMG TIL: In the James Bond film/novel, ‘Casino Royale’, the name Vesper Lynd is a pun on “West Berlin”, signifying divided loyalties.
yVo6w TIL that in 1909 the entire town of Ulysses, Kansas was relocated 3 miles west to escape their debts
yyVv TIL Mark Twain said of Jane Austen “Every time I read Pride and Prejudice, I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
worpP TIL that over 2.5 million indians fought for britain during WW2.