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TIL Roughly 1 in 8 people (12.3%) in the USA live in the NYC, Chicago or LA urban areas. These urban areas account for only 0.2% of America's land

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OGJnL TIL of the Pappenheimer witch trial, in which the Pappenheimer family was executed after being accused of witchcraft - the accuser desiring to promote witch trials in Bavaria and also to close a variety of other unclosed cases. Despite this, witch trials remained unpopular and rare.
YpxaP TIL if 75% of your liver were removed and 25% left, that 25% could regenerate a full size liver in 8 to 15 days? Your new liver would reorganize itself over the course of a few months but it would be functional as it regenerates.
N7V4N TIL Iggy Pop once went round the VIP booths at the club before his own show, asking audience members for money to score some heroin before he would go on. He shot up next to the stage, then walked on and passed out (OD'd).
REr4 TIL: The Bali public holiday “Day of Silence” (Nyepi) requires all tourists to be imprisoned in their hotels for 24 hours. No one is allowed on the streets, and could be arrested by Traditional Police. All businesses including the airport, ATMs, and TV broadcasts are shut down.
NXdGN TIL Sloth babies usually survive if they lose their grip on their mom and fall but sometimes, the mother sloth doesn’t want to go on the ground to pick the baby up because she'd risk being seen by predators.