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TIL Bill Gates received an honorary knighthood from the Queen but as an American Citizen he cannot use the title “Sir”

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aweGo TIL over 80% of the world have never flown on an airplane
P1OEg TIL in 2022 China experienced its first drop in population since 1961. It had a record low birth rate of 6.77 births per 1,000 while also recording its highest death rate since 1976: 7.37 deaths per 1,000 people.
RVr7 TIL that ‘Scientologists’ collectively won the Pigasus award, a satirical award given to those who advocate pseudoscientific theories, in 2009. They were under the category, 'Refusal to face reality’.
wK0J TIL that in 2002, Dave Grohl became the first person to hold the number one spot on the modern rock charts as a member of three different groups
lNja TIL In 1961, the US Government came up with a plan, coined Operation Plowshare, to use nuclear explosives for “peaceful construction purposes”. One proposal was to widen the Panama Canal by blasting it with those nuclear explosions.