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TIL that over half of the world’s internet users got online for the first time after 2010. As of 2021, there were about 4.9 billion internet users globally, up from 2 billion in 2010.

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d85OQ TIL Greenland is part of North America
7LdL TIL The Cult of Pythagoras didn’t eat beans because they thought you lose your soul when you fart.
jgdn TIL the makers of the ‘Airplane!’ and “Naked Gun” movies bought a horse just to make a joke. They named the horse All Pink and instructed the jockey not to win but to stay on the inside rail the whole race just to hear the play-by-play announcer say “Its All Pink on the inside”.
Qxw9 TIL that a University of Minnesota study has found that while a neat and tidy working area encouraged normatively good activities like eating healthy and donating to charity, a messy work environment encouraged trying new things and increased creativity.
x68Zg TIL that the letter “E” was used for grading up until the 1930s because US schools feared students would misinterpret “E” for meaning excellent.