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TIL that Stephen King considers his novel “Pet Sematary” his most disturbing one, and never intended to publish it.

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oBwwR TIL that France suffered from demographic stagnation through the 19th century. While Germany and the UK increased their population by 60% and 54%, France grew only by 8%. If France had the same population growth as England, it's current population would've been over 150 million people.
vP1NB TIL about the Carrington Event: in 1859 a massive solar flare spewed electrified gas and subatomic particles toward Earth, wreaking havoc on telegraph networks. Today it would stop our “modern life” for weeks.
r01M TIL that Alan Tudyk, Adam Baldwin, and Nathan Fillion all voiced marines in Halo 3. Their characters were given personalities resembling the characters they played in Firefly.
v1Kr8 TIL a tax auditor in Finland died at his desk in his office, and no one realized he was dead for 2 days.
9YbZp TIL, On the same day Facebook became a public platform, DARPA suspended a project called LifeLog. The project “aimed to compile a massive electronic database of every activity and relationship a person engages in."