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TIL that Spain currently has a lower fertility rate than Japan

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PYl6g TIL about Father Francis Gleeson, an Army chaplain during WWI. At the Battle of Ypres, among heavy casualties, he tore off the badges that marked him as a non-combatant so he could take command and hold the line.
kOAxm TIL that the inventor of the cereal Apple Jacks is currently a professor of biological engineering at MIT and invented the cereal as a summer intern
0w69p TIL the man who first created a Bureau of Investigation within the US Department of Justice, which would later become the Federal Bureau of Investigation, was a nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte.
OGxlR TIL The logo for BMW is designed to resemble an aircraft propeller
1nO8 TIL a man named Vincent Ocasla has created a fully functional “flawless” Sim City 3000 game spanning 1.5 years of theory and planning, followed by 2.5 years of construction. He is considered to have “beaten” the game.