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TIL that Niger has highest total fertility rate and its more than 3 times the replacement rate

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b96j7 TIL in 2015 James McElvar, a Scotsman, decided to wear all the clothes from his bag (12 layers of clothing!) during a flight to avoid taking the bag and paying a £45 baggage fee. He fell ill during the flight; paramedics said he was "lucky to be alive".
Vrvk TIL that the Nazi’s were staunch animal rights activists with major efforts to limit hunting and general animal cruelty. Göring, in particular, was a professed animal lover who proclaimed bans on both vivisection(Nazi Germany was the first country in the world to do so) and the shoeing of horses.
Z8eE4 TIL Craig Bartlett, creator of Hey Arnold!, was married to Lisa Groening, making "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening his brother-in-law.
WMQ8 TIL a 19-Year-Old developed a way to remove over 7,250,000 tons of plastic from our oceans.
VBOop TIL The United States once had a 36-year-old vice president back in 1857. John C. Breckinridge is still the only person under 40 to serve as president or vice president.