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TIL that some employers use military-grade surveillance tools originally developed for the Pentagon and the CIA to track staff behavior, emotions, fatigue, work intensity, and productivity.

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64LX TIL that at the end of WWI, Germany had to pay reparations of 132 billion gold marks. The reparations were not fully paid until 2010, marking the official end of the war.
P1lBe TIL that the fastest object ever built by humans is NASA's Parker Solar Probe. Built to observe the outer corona of the Sun, the probe set the speed record by traveling at 587,000 km/h (364,660 mph), fast enough to fly from New York to Tokyo in just over a minute.
OGMPY TIL there are only two U.S. mass school shooters from the past century who are alive and not incarcerated. That's because they were 11 and 13 at the time of the crime.
E1ZEP TIL animals hover right around 1 billion heartbeats over the course of a lifetime except for humans and chickens who are just over 2 billion heartbeats.
rNe8o TIL that Calcio Storico, the supposedly ancient form of football played in Florence, was not played until the late-15th century and actually died out in the early-17th century. It was only revived by Mussolini in 1930.