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TIL: Over the past 50 years, there has been a decline of 3 billion birds across North America

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8aYEK TIL that between 991 and 1018, the Anglo-Saxon kings of England paid an important economic tribute to the Viking invaders worth circa 2.8 million troy oz in silver coins. This explains why today there are still more Anglo-Saxon silver coins in Denmark than in England.
R5L6Q TIL bobcats can breed with lynxes to produce blynxes
4er6 TIL Reddit’s founders posted content under lots of fake usernames during the early days to set content tone
lEMA TIL Bayer Pharmaceutical knowingly shipped out HIV-tainted blood transfusions to Hemophiliacs in countries such as France, Spain and Japan during the 1980s. They eventually paid millions out in lawsuits but no Bayer executive was ever charged with a crime.
eNk6 TIL Michael Jackson was bald and wore wigs to conceal it. Autopsy report confirms.