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TIL if global fertility rates keep dropping at their current rate, the human population will shrink and humanity may disappear within a few hundred years

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DGpJ TIL During the Battle of Stalingrad, the Russian army would project audio propaganda to demoralize German forces, including a “Death Tango” and a female voice saying “Every 7 seconds, a German soldier dies on the Eastern Front.” followed by a clock’s ticking noise.
OOO7 TIL that in the 1930s, to control prices, govt placed caps on how much a farmer could produce, claiming that a farmer growing more than that cap, even just to feed his family, was “interstate commerce” because NOT having to buy grain to feed his family would affect prices - the Supreme Court agreed!
D1RXJ TIL there is a German island in the North Sea (Föhr) whose residents love the Manhattan cocktail - a relic of mass emigration to America in the late 1800s/early 1900s of island residents.
gXxD TIL that Brazil has twice authorized illegal, local production of patented HIV/AIDS drugs in order to save the lives of its people.
MxXm TIL that in England, from 17th until early 20th century, it was common for a man to sell his wife in auction, as a cheaper alternative to divorce. It would often happen in a public market, with the wife on leash.