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TIL that 7% of the humans who ever lived are alive today.

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6BW8 TIL that Tommy Chong, while in jail, convinced stock broker Jordan Belfont to write a memoir about his story on Wall Street. That story turned out to be The Wolf on Wall Street
8LQ8 TIL the first recording of the spoken word “Fuck” was made in 1885.
jNOaM TIL Triscuits are salted on one side only
9yaX TIL in 1976, Japan donated 53 bonsai trees to the US for its bicentennial, including a white pine that had been tended daily since 1625 and survived the Hiroshima atomic blast. Its history was unknown until 2001, when two brothers showed up at the museum to check on their grandfather’s tree.
1aDx7 TIL of the Nightingale Pledge, a modified Hippocratic Oath named in honor of Florence Nightingale, US nurses take at their graduation ceremony