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TIL 90% of the world’s population lives on the northern hemisphere

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PYx6Z TIL magician Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin went to French controlled Algeria in 1856 to show the power of French magic. He lifted a metal box in front of a crowd, then had a warrior that he had made "as weak as a woman" try. Turning on electromagnets in the ground, he made the metal box unliftable.
wdlY TIL that one day in 1880, three men from Arkansas, searching for a wildcat, stumbled on a mysterious cave whose inside was covered in a radiant blue color. The three men immediately fell ill and were covered in sores after leaving the cave. They had discovered the first radium mine in America.
LYJQ TIL September 16 is the most common birthday, and the month of September has 10 of the most common birthdays of the entire year.
Y7Vjx TIL West Virginia Pepperoni Rolls Were Invented as Simple and Filling Food for Coal Miners.
ZPA4 TIL that Louis Leakey joked to Dian Fossey that she should have her appendix removed if she were serious about studying gorillas in the wild. By the time he clarified this in a letter, she had already gotten the surgery.