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TIL There was the exact same number of 8-year-old girls in Sweden on 1 January 1994 as there were 9-year-old girls in 1 January 1995, none died and none immigrated.

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o5RE TIL after the 2007 movie “The Man From Earth” was illegally shared via BitTorrent, the producer publicly thanked the file sharers because it “lifted the profile of the film far beyond the financier’s expectations.”
ExgV TIL walking through doorways causes you to forget more information because it creates an ‘event boundary’ in each room.
MZDa TIL 7 members of an isolated Indian tribe emerged from the Amazon and made contact with people in a village near the Peruvian border because “violent attacks” by outsiders had driven them from the forest. Later, details emerged that their elder relatives were massacred and their houses set on fire.
GjQg TIL Mount Everest isn’t the highest mountain on Earth. Because the Earth bulges at the equator the Ecuadorian mountain Chimborazo is higher, but Mount Everest is taller compared to sea level.
KOwMR TIL: The Centennial Light is the world's longest-lasting light bulb, burning since 1901. ] It is often cited as evidence for the existence of planned obsolescence in later-produced light bulbs.