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

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yY8M TIL Poor white southerners in American South, who were viewed in the North as lazy and stupid, were actually victim to a hookworm epidemic that turned them into listless imbeciles. Up to 40% were infected in the early 1900s.
GARd7 TIL that feminist American magazine Ms. has not carried advertisements since 1990
BgvVd TIL Brothers Grimm didn't write "Red Riding Hood", "Snow White" or "Sleeping Beauty" - they just collected the folk tales
P17LL TIL that years before the upcoming Gladiator 2, Russell Crowe commissioned a script for a sequel in which Maximus goes to the afterlife and gets resurrected, appearing in World War 2 and the Vietnam War, and ending with him in a suit and tie at the modern-day Pentagon.
dD94r TIL: Gravity on the ISS is ~90% of the Earth's. It looks like they're on zero-G because both the astronauts and the ISS are in a continual state of freefall (orbiting the Earth).