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TIL that the timeframe between 9 BC and 9 AD is known as the "0s". The world population at the time is speculated to have been 150-300 million people, 3.75% of the population today.

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rEg4 TIL Christopher John Boyce was a convicted spy for the Soviet Union sentenced to 40 years in prison. In 1980, he escaped federal prison and was on the run for 1yr and 8 months, during which time he committed 17 bank robberies and studied aviation so he could eventually flee to the Soviet Union.
l7lj1 TIL that the Aryan Brotherhood and the Manson Family considered joining forces when they were in prison together, but the partnership fell through when the Aryan Brotherhood took offense at the murder of Sharon Tate.
KOEVE TIL that a dog named Greyfriars Bobby was so loyal that he spent 14 years next to his master's grave (that is, until his own death)
VMlxB TIL that 90% of the coal we use today only exists because 300 million years ago, microbes that could ingest wood, did not exist, so trees would fall on top of each other, and the weight of all that heavy wood, over millions of years, would compress those trees into peat and then, into coal.
n8mG TIL that the US population spends more than 68 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR on lottery tickets. That is more than what they annually spend on movie tickets, music, pornography, the NFL, the MLB and video games combined.