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TIL the total number of gifts given in The Twelve Days of Christmas is 364, the number of days in a year excluding Christmas itself.

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gr5YD TIL Apple had a mysterious zeroclick exploit affecting many of its products that went undetected for 4 years. When it was discovered it was largely unreported by the media
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