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TIL for every person alive today, only 15 people have died through all of human history.

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8eal4 TIL that Britain looted around 45 trillion dollars from India between 1765 and 1938, based on nearly two years of precise tax and trade data.
D8ke TIL in Germany, it is illegal to contact/email an employee on their vacation days.
nePw7 TIL Business Insider in the US made the claim that Stephen Hawking if he was a British citizen, he would have been left to die by the NHS. Stephen Hawking rebutted and stated the only reason he was alive at that time was because of the NHS and reminded them that he was English.
mxKpO TIL that the United States had marched into the heartland of Mexico and occupied the capital city of Mexico during the Mexican-American war
b9lnE TIL that born and raised in Mozambique student filed lawsuit against medical school in US for harassment and suspension for identifying himself as “white African-American.” He was told “never to call himself as an African-American" as it was offensive to others and to people of color.