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TIL 108 billion people have lived on Earth. And nearly half, 52 billion, have been killed by mosquitoes

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woVP6 TIL Shari Lewis of Kukla, Fran, and Ollie and Lambchop fame co-wrote an episode of Star Trek.
8aVZV TIL of French telecom CEO Didier Lombard, who was found guilty of moral harassment after 18 employees committed suicide under his leadership from 2008 to 2010, including an employee who stabbed himself in the stomach during a staff meeting and a woman who threw herself out of a window.
AgXw TIL Bono was campaigning to have first-world taxpayers forgive all third world debt whilst hiding U2s earnings from Irish tax collectors in the Netherlands.
KYwXJ TIL that the 3 Ninjas franchise was made in part by a South Korean Director, Shin Sang-ok, who was kidnapped and held captive for 8 years by Kim Jong-il.
NXnGN TIL that a man died in the lighthouse he built. Henry Winstanley was so confident in the lighthouse's design that he wished to be inside during "the greatest storm there ever was". The lighthouse was completely destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703, killing Winstanley.