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TIL The present urban population is larger than the total population of the world when Richard Nixon was inaugurated as president of the United States of America

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w1J TIL YouTube view counts stop at 301 to prevent ‘counterfeit’ views
XGQP TIL in 1962 news channel NBC paid a West Berlin team 50,000DM ($150,000 today) to dig under the Berlin Wall, on the condition that NBC could film the escape. 29 East Germans managed to escape, and the resulting NBC film, The Tunnel, won 3 Emmies.
LkLk0 TIL the reason two horizontal lines are used for the Equals sign is because, in the words of the inventor, “no 2 things can be more equal”
nxNG TIL after Luvosky left Microsoft for Google, Steve Ballmer picked up his chair, threw it across his office and said, “Fucking Eric Schmidt is a fucking pussy. I’m going to fucking bury that guy, I have done it before, and I will do it again. I’m going to fucking kill Google
MeA9a TIL the Canadian divisions who took Juno beach on D-Day were all volunteers. Canada did not enact conscription until later in 1944; only 2463 men ever saw forced front line service. Overall, 10%+ of Canada's population served in the war effort.