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TIL that 99% of Estonians have blue eyes.

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jNVdX TIL the title of the movie 'October Sky' is an anagram of 'Rocket Boys', the title of the 1998 book upon which the movie is based. Universal Studios marketing people had to change the title because, according to their research, women over thirty would never see a movie titled Rocket Boys.
W7pAA TIL there was a gameshow where people would compete for an organ from a Terminally Ill woman.
VOP4 TIL China isn’t even near “the other side of the planet” (for those of us living in North America)
160k8 TIL of Kurt Gerstein, a Nazi officer who tried to alert the world of the Holocaust while it was happening by sending detailed reports to Swedish, Swiss, Dutch and Catholic officials. These were largely ineffective and he died by suicide in 1945
rJAW TIL The United States still executes prisoners by firing squad. The last prisoner executed by firing squad was in 2010 in Utah.