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TIL: In 2013-16, data of around 3 Billion Yahoo! users was leaked, making it the largest data breach in history. Even if the most significant breach occurred in 2013, the company announced it in late 2016.

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NXrdb TIL Marie-Antoine Carême 1783-1833 'the king of chefs and chef of kings' : developed HAUTE cuisine; introduced the poofy Toque Chef hat; worked for Napoleon; Tzar Alexander; the price regent and the Rosthchilds and built sculptures out of sugar paste
rKBM TIL that since 1985 the Saudi government has ordered the destruction of 95% of Mecca’s historic buildings, most over a 1000 years old. It’s estimated that there now fewer than 20 buildings left from the time of Muhammad.
gMOXb TIL that in Kenya, elephant poop is being used to make paper. Elephants poop up to 50kg a day which can produce 125 sheets of paper. This helps save the indigenous tree population and forest from being destroyed, along with creating a need for the 7000 elephants left in Kenya.
e0YY6 TIL some animals can be made from just one parent. For example, the Komodo dragon, only has a mother. Asexual reproduction, the most primitive method of reproduction, involves a single parent and produces a clone, an organism that is genetically identical to the parent.
YpAkd TIL the Danish police resisted Nazi command so fiercely that 1,960 of its 10,000 police members were arrested and sent to concentration camps. Faced with Nazi demands, the Danish police administration was inclined to accepted them, but the Police organizations refused, leading to the deportations.