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TIL the bird population has dropped 30% since 1970

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1aad4 TIL the first US naval ship to have electric lighting was the USS Trenton (commissioned, 1877). The lights were installed in 1883
rN17o TIL of Henry Paget, Earl of Uxbridge, who had his leg blown off by a cannon in the Battle of Waterloo. It was put in a shrine in the garden of the house where he was amputated, becoming a local tourist attraction.
pmV4 TIL The creators of South Park only start making a new episode 6 days prior to the episode’s air date. In 17 seasons, they have only missed the deadline once, when South Park Studios lost power.
4XBZR TIL the urban legend of Atari burying hundreds of thousands of ET cartridges in a New Mexico landfill actually happened. An excavation found them in 2014.
b64Vj TIL that Rush's 1981 single "Red Barchetta" was based on a 1973 short story published by Road & Track magazine. The subject matter of both stories were dystopian futures where certain types of vehicles were either heavily legislated or outlawed entirely, and government surveillance was everywhere.