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TIL that white-tailed deer were hunted so much in the 18th and 19th centuries that only 300,000 or so were around by 1900; by 2000, the population had recovered to over 30 million

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Ooama TIL the third season DVDs of "The Adventures of Pete and Pete" were made but mysteriously never distributed. The creators think they're in a warehouse: "It's recorded, we did commentary tracks with a bunch of the cast, there's all these special extras on it. They pressed them, we saw it. Nothing."
kOQ4d TIL in mid 18th century Gross National Income per capita (PPP) of countries that today make up third world (Asia, Africa, Latin America) was more than first world (Western Europe, Northern America, Japan, Singapore and South Korea)
WkgA8 TIL if the people of Planken, Liechtenstein exercised their constitutional right to secede, they would become the world's least populated nation (450 people) and the third smallest in area.
GAkY7 TIL That a carbon dioxide bubble in Lake Nyos killed 1,800 people, including livestock and flies. ‘“There were no flies on the dead”; the flies were dead too.’
VBVAB TIL the Dutch word "Swaffelen" (meaning to hit an object or person with one's penis, often repeatedly) won 2008 word of the year in the Netherlands and Belgium.