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TIL that AT&T has a database known as “Hawkeye” that contains 312 terabytes of data detailing nearly every telephone communication on AT&T’s domestic network since 2001

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ZpvPG TIL that Raven is a chimpanzee. It picked stocks by throwing darts and became the 22nd most successful manager in the US. This chimpanzee created its own index called MonkeyDex, which grew by 213% in 1999, outperforming the performance of over 6000 professional brokers on Wall Street.
7rjex TIL Wal-Mart lost $100m on life insurance policies it secretly bought for its employees and never intended to pay to their families
jG6E TIL Debbie Harry, who turns 70 on July 1, is considered the first rapper to chart at number one in the United States.
J1Wkk Til Sea otters influence the amount of C02 in the atmosphere by controlling population of sea urchins that in turn eat kelp. Annually, kelp forests store an equivalent of yearly emission of 4 million passenger cards.
XEAkP TIL The United States still has 8 nuclear weapons unaccounted for as a result of "broken arrow" incidents typically involving the aircraft carrying it crashing or in one case a crew member accidentally grabbing the emergency release pin.