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TIL that south Korea has a lower fertility rate (0.75 births/woman) than the Vatican (1.00 births/woman)

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7rApb TIL Alexander Graham Bell offered to sell his telephone patent to Western Union for $100,000 in 1876. The committee appointed to investigate the offer concluded the telephone was "hardly more than a toy" and "inherently of no use to us".
PyWE TIL a 2004 study of 43 fruits and vegetables found that their nutritional value has decreased significantly over the past 50 years.
mxKvE TIL In New Jersey, it's a third-degree crime to wear a bulletproof vest while engaged in some criminal activity, including murder.
4g1X TIL Quentin Tarantino thinks Death Proof was his worst film. Vowed he’ll retire before he makes another movie that bad.
woYv6 TIL : The Brazilian government couldn't afford to send its 69 athletes to the 1932 Los Angeles Games, so they herded them onto a ship with 50,000 sacks of Brazilian coffee, hoping to sell the beans to various ports of call on the way to California.