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TIL the bird population has dropped 30% since 1970

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YpEEx TIL GCHQ, one of the British espionage agencies, uses Xbox Live data to find prospective spies. People who achieve the right performance in video games get targeted with in-game ads for the agency.
R7MJ8 TIL of Gino Bartali, a cyclist who used his fame as a winner of the Tour de France to smuggle counterfeit documents hidden inside his bicycle through Nazi checkpoints in WWII Italy under the guise of training. These documents allowed as many as 800 Jews to escape persecution by the Nazis.
9Y4Or TIL the Pittsburgh Pirates got their moniker in the 1890s because they pilfered players from other teams.
rNev4 TIL that in 2023, Meta almost doubled Mark Zuckerberg’s personal security to $14,000,000 while cutting 11,000 jobs. Mark Zuckerberg called this the “year of efficiency”.
XEPR TIL- There is a disease nicknamed Ondine’s Curse which causes sufferers to die if they fall asleep.