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TIL that at a point, breathing in Delhi, India was equivalent to smoking 45 cigarettes a day.

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nerGW TIL "Cheese-eating surrender monkeys" is an insult used to refer to French people. It first appeared in the Simpsons (1995) when Willy says "Bonjoooouuurrr, ya cheese-eatin' surrender monkeys" to a French class. The term has since entered two Oxford Quotation Dictionaries.
nQkG TIL the Queen of England’s portrait has been on enough international money to make a progressive timeline of her aging
rRGJW TIL about Hart Island in NY, one of the largest cemeteries in the U.S. About one million people have been buried there since 1869, mostly children and stillborn babies. Very few people have even been allowed to visit, and taking pictures or videos is illegal.
k4Z1 TIL that between 1960 and 1977, the secret number authorizing US presidents to launch nuclear missiles was 00000000.
mrEo TIL that pre-Incan people are still living on man-made floating islands of grass, as they have for hundreds of years, on lake Titicaca