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TIL one of the top 10 most secure places in the world is a unique multi-storey car park in Derby, England. The architect designed it in response to his car window being broken and his stereo stolen. Other entries in the top 10 include Fort Knox, Air Force One, and Saddam Hussein’s Baghdad bunker

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M7PDW TIL Game of Thrones became the most pirated TV show in history, with the season 7 finale streamed or downloaded over 1 billion times. By season 8, illegal viewership doubled legal numbers with 55M downloads for the premiere. HBO eventually embraced the piracy buzz, calling it a “free-to-play” model.
57Ok TIL that after Haiti’s independence in 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, self-proclaimed Emperor of Haiti, ordered and carried out a massacre of the entire remaining French population of the island, numbering 3000-5000 people of all ages and gender.
1P64 TIL that despite 2.5 to 4 percent of modern human DNA coming from Neanderthals, there are no known Y-chromosome genes from them. One hypothesis: modern human women’s immune system spontaneously aborted male fetuses carrying Neanderthal H-Y genes
Xx0r TIL of an armored vehicle prototype invented by Preston Tucker in 1930s. Tucker Tiger, as it was called, was entirely bulletproof, had air conditioning, and a turret that could rotate 360 degrees. Its maximum speed was 114 mph, but it was rejected by the Army because they felt it was too fast.
RaZ9 TIL that a man once wrestled a bear, had his leg mutilated, was left for dead, woke up, set the wound on his own, and crawled over 200 miles for six weeks back to his home town, and then set out to find the men who left him to die