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TIL that manmade air pollution is the cause of more than two million deaths every year globally

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4kRo5 TIL Mel Brooks not only produced the 1986 version of The Fly but came up with its most famous line "Be afraid, be very afraid."
ep05J TIL about Planet Nine, a hypothetical planet, ten times larger than Earth, that may lie in the outer reaches of the solar system and would explain a peculiar cluster of trans-Neptunian objects.
4kRYR TIL Tracy Chapman was able to debut her song "Fast Car" to over 600 million people due to Stevie Wonder losing an important hard drive needed to do his own performance,
kvZ5 TIL Thomas Silverstein has been in solitary confinement for ~29 years, which is longer than any other prisoner in the Bureau of Prisons.
nWjDP TIL The home port for the game "NBA Jam" was going to have an unlockable Mortal Kombat themed court called the "Kombat Kourt." The NBA said no to this as it included such things as the court being surrounded by lava and a severed human head as the ball.