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TIL Canada has nearly twice as many indigenous people as Brazil

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oGXY TIL The term Young Turk is slang for a rebellious youth who acts contrary to what is deemed normal by society
oRJeY TIL for every grain of sand on Earth there are 10,000 stars in the known universe, but the total number of stars in the known universe equals the number of molecules in just ten drops of water.
08l5 TIL There is a man in Georgia being sentenced to 10 years in prison and banishment from the state for defending himself from 5+ attackers in a hate crime.
Y7G0Z TIL hot spots fed by mantle plumes can result in lava floods in intraplate regions. These results in much more lava (hundreds of thousands of cubic kilometers of basalt) being released than regular eruptions and create flood basalts.
Me7r7 Unpredictable extremes of weather could be a huge problem. Simon N. Gosling, a geographer at the University of Nottingham in England, and Robert E. Davis of the University of Virginia agree that hotter weather on average isn't as dangerous as unexpected weather. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in April looked at how temperature fluctuations over a single summer affect mortality in vulnerable populations.