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TIL outdoor cats are the #1 threat to bird populations. They have contributed to the extinction of 33 bird populations and are responsible for roughly 2.4 billion in bird losses per year.

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6nPX TIL Berthold Stauffenberg, brother of Claus von Stauffenberg (chief conspirator in 20 July assasination plot to kill Hitler) was executed by being strangled and then revived multiple times. The execution and multiple resuscitations were filmed for Hitler to view at his leisure.
rGL1 TIL That there is a desk full of candy at the entrance to the US Senate Floor.
9ypQ TIL: During WW2 Mariya Oktyabrskaya sold all her stuff so she could personally buy a tank and kill Nazis. And she did.
nWoOo TIL Surgeons that grew up playing video games more than 3 hours per week make 37% fewer errors and had a 33% faster completion rate on performing laparoscopic surgery
aw9oN TIL that Iraq dug extensive trenches prior to the Gulf War. The US army responded by mounting plows on tanks, and drove them through 70 miles of trenches guarded by 8,000 soldiers. Most Iraqi soldiers were buried alive, making a body count impossible. There were zero American casualties.