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TIL people nowadays spend only around half an hour on average with friends in a day.

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M7B8W TIL in WW1, ten Vickers machine guns fired over one million rounds in a 12-hour period to provide sustained covering fire. To cool the guns, they used all the water in the neighbourhood, including drinking water and the contents of latrine buckets.
VMDe8 TIL the passenger pigeon once had a population of 3-5 billion birds in North America. Hunters killed tens of thousands of them every day, then ignored calls to protect them when their numbers dwindled, until the last wild one was shot and stuffed in 1902, and the last captive one died in 1912.
xg1D TIL that the Vatican is the only country in the world where women can’t vote
EaR7 TIL of “Sinus Inversus”, a rare condition where you are born with all your internal organs on the opposite side of your body. It is harmless by itself and people are often unaware that they have it.
aJVo TIL that there’s a mathematical formula, that when graphed, can visually reproduce itself