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TIL the city with the highest population density in history was Kowloon Walled City at 3.2 million people per square mile, 200 times higher than that of Tokyo.

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4Xw6N TIL that during the Christmas of 1819, King George III - who by then was completely blind, increasingly deaf, had dementia, was in pain from rheumatism and suffering from another bout of insanity - spoke nonsense for 58 hours.
61Pw TIL a 96-year old lady from Australia knitted over 1000 tiny sweaters for penguins to protect them from oil spills.
P1grO TIL that between 2010 and 2012, Jerome Powell worked on getting Congress to raise the U.S. debt ceiling during the debt-ceiling crisis of 2011. He presented the implications to the economy and interest rates of a default or a delay in raising the debt ceiling. He worked for a salary of $1 per year.
5YYGn The sound of a jet engine is about 1,000,000,000 times more powerful than the smallest audible sound.
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