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TIL the bird population has dropped 30% since 1970

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Vya8 TIL it is possible to literally sweat blood. Under extreme emotional or physical stress blood vessels that feed sweat glands can rupture, causing the glands to exude blood.
9wlQD TIL that on Christmas Eve 1944, a group of lost and wounded US Soldiers and lost and tired German soldiers laid down their weapons and shared a meager holiday meal together. The story became the basis for the 2002 television movie "Silent Night."
pYWO TIL Amish men do not grow mustaches because, as pacifists, they did not want to be associated with warring Europeans who wore elaborate mustaches.
loDka TIL that in 2011, an elderly woman who was searching for copper accidentally sliced through an underground cable which left the whole country of Armenia without internet connection.
0V7M TIL that the heated water in the barrel of the Vickers machine gun was sometimes used to make tea for British soldiers during World War I.