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TIL that the global Jewish population (2016: 14,410,700) has yet to catch up to its pre-WWII population (1939: 16,728,000).

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WP48 TIL that those tiny bright moving lines that appear in your field of vision when looking at a clear blue sky are actually your own white blood cells moving in the capillaries in front of your eyes’ retinas.
6Y6l TIL: The Nazis never called themselves ‘Nazis’, as it was a derogatory word for a backwards peasant. It was the anti-Nazis that popularised the term.
v1enr TIL that multiple Star Wars lead actors have struggled with a habit of making their own sound effects for fight scenes - to the point where multiple takes needed to be re-shot because you could see the actors making lightsaber noises.
Yo9G TIL that in rare cases, popping a pimple in the so-called “danger triangle” can lead to facial paralysis, brain infections/meningitis, and even death.
8Ylb TIL the main component of education in Turkmenistan has been almost completely replaced by memorization of the “Ruhnama”, the president’s personal autobiography. An engineer reported that all his son learns is passages. “He has begun telling me off because he has memorised more of the book than me.”