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TIL: Clint Eastwood is a jazz pianist and composer and actually composed the music featured in several of his movies.

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R5lbQ TIL Between 1975 and 2010, the population of India doubled to 1.2 billion, reaching the billion mark in 2000. India overtook China to become the most populous country at the end of April 2023. India's population stands at slightly over 1.428 billion, edging past China's 1.425 billion people.
yGeV TIL there are are a series of tunnels under Portland, OR that were used for kidnapping mariners and women to sell them into slavery and prostitution. The so called “Shanghai Tunnels” were in operation from 1850 to 1941.
vL48 TIL that height has a more important effect on earnings than gender.
KOo09 TIL that, if we measure the height of moutain from the center of the Earth (which is the same for everybody) and not from sea-level (which is fluctuating and sometimes, hard to calculate), the highest peak on Earth is the Chimporazo Volcano in Chile.
kJoyg TIL a Gameboy was stored in a barracks that was bombed in The Gulf War and it ran Tetris like nothing happened.