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TIL in the USA, a candidate could win the electoral college while winning only about 22% of the nationwide popular vote.

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w6ZJ TIL that Charles Darwin didn’t refer to evolution (“evolve”) in his book, “Origin of Species”, until the very last sentence so that potentially outraged Christians would either lose interest and stop reading before finding it, or be forced to read the evidence first.
VBAyk TIL The malacologist Alexander Fedoslov named the four sea slugs from the group Clavus which he discovered after his favorite rock & metal guitarists: Clavus davidgilmouri (Pink Floyd), Clavus andreolbrichi (Blind Guardian), Clavus kirkhammetti (Metallica) and Clavus brianmayi (Queen)!
vPK74 TIL Half-Life 2 has a burnt corpse model textured using photos of a real dead and badly burnt body
E6O7 TIL Acetaminophen kills far more Americans each year than terrorists do.
1ay04 TIL although less talked about, the trauma of unexpectedly getting fired is very similar to the trauma of being left by a loved one.