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TIL CNN’s Wolf Blitzer appeared on Jeopardy! and ended up with a final score of negative 4600.

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5YYrQ TIL a 2004 study estimated the sustainable limit to the world population to be 7.7 billion people. As of October 2017, the estimated global population is 7.6 billion people.
BrgBk TIL the USSR was so massive it covered 1/6th of the world's land - as big as North America
9YWdr TIL Unlike the Norse, Anglo-Saxons believed that Odin (Woden) was a mortal common ancestor, and English kings continued to claim to be descendants of Odin up to the 12th century.
wy47 TIL Pluto is so far away, that not only has it still not completed a full orbit around the sun since its discovery in 1930, it’s barely completed a third of its orbit. It won’t complete its first full orbit until 2178.
kO474 TIL that logo of the popular Japanese rock band, Greeeen is of a mouthful of teeth because the members are actual dentists irl. They have never shown their faces in the public and their identities are still unknown to protect their dentistry careers.