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TIL Nigeria started a famine in 1968 that would kill 2-3 million people, prompting one of the largest humanitarian crises of all time. To which Nigeria responded "If the children must die first, then that is too bad, just too bad."

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X0meP TIL of the Janka Hardness Test which is the measurement of force required to embed an 11.28-millimeter-diameter (7⁄16 in) steel ball halfway into a sample of wood. This is the standard test used to determine the hardness of all woods.
ANYZg TIL pineapples take two to three years to grow.
jNDQj TIL Herman Hollerith's invention, the punched card tabulating machine, patented in 1884, marks the beginning of the era of mechanized binary code and semiautomatic data processing systems, and his concepts dominated high-tech for nearly a century. His inventions led to the creation of IBM in 1924.
ADBgg TIL - Rhode Island has twice the population of Wyoming, even though Wyoming is 97x bigger
OoM7R TIL Countless would-be adventurers have been rescued attempting to reach the bus where Chris McCandless died in "Into the Wild," as well as three known instances of fans being found dead.