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TIL Population Reference Bureau estimates that by 2050 about 113 billion people will have ever lived on Earth. Those of us currently alive represent about 7% of the total number of humans who have ever lived.

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RmE8 TIL of Cunningham’s Law: “The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.”
wm46 TIL you could stop both the original and the current Green Lantern with a #2 pencil.
X0gGP TIL the infamous coast-to-coast Cannonball Run challenge is named after Cannonball, the locomotive driven by Casey Jones when he fatally tried to make up a 75 minute delay and set a speed record from Memphis TN to Canton MS
5Y1v8 TIL in 1943 a farmer was preparing his land when a volcano started growing under his feet. The volcano, known as Paricutín would grow to a 424m high cone and engulf 2 towns in lava.
XEK4R TIL Rodney Dangerfield suffered a mild heart attack while performing his act on The Tonight Show. While Dangerfield was doing his standup, Jay Leno noticed something was off with Dangerfield’s movements and asked his producer to call the paramedics.