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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”.

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Xaoj TIL that scientists have discovered the first fully warm-blooded fish
W74dN TIL from 1970 to 1994, there was a gift dropping operation for North Sentinel island. Coconuts, buckets, sweet potatoes, Yorkshire hog, red linen, rubber balls, sickles, choppers, bead necklaces and citrus saplings were among the gifts dropped to the island
gMQv9 TIL some countries use semi-permanent ink in a finger to prevent voting more than once because they don't have a good people identification system to do that
b9XV4 TIL: Verizon will hang up on you (and refuse to communicate) if you inform them that you are recording the phone call. Even though they require you to let them record you.
OoDZ1 TIL that a man named Oto Benga killed himself in 1916 after his family was murdered and he became an exhibit in the monkey house at Bronx Zoo. He was a popular "attraction" and was advertised as being the missing link in evolution.