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TIL Fiji lost its original declaration of independence from the UK and asked a copy from them.

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9YK9X TIL that human subjects have been shown to grossly underestimate exponential growth. "Neither special instructions about the nature of exponential growth nor daily experience with growth processes enhanced the extrapolations."
D14kV TIL that Haiti has an estimated 300 000 child slaves who face daily beating and that Haiti is second in slavery to Mauritania
16rE8 TIL: A study on the history of bedbugs found that ancient humans received them intermittently due to nomadic lifestyle and they were considered pest and potion ingredients as cures for snake bites, malaria etc. Bed bugs were introduced to America by Europeans and recently there is a resurgence.
GYAGE TIL that the DNA in ancient dental calculus is a fantastic reservoir for the oral microbiome, which tells us a lot about the behavior, health, and diet of ancient human beings.
xVkO0 TIL that time seems to speed up as we get older because each year we live is a smaller percentage of the total amount of time we’ve been alive. It’s called proportional theory.