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TIL that 10% of Japan's population is now aged 80 or older

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ANJEo TIL about the Echuya Batwa, a people native to Uganda's Impenetrable Forest. In 1991, they were evicted from their lands to make way for a nature reserve to protect the gorillas that live there. Today, they suffer from a life expectancy of only 28 and nearly half of all children don't live to five.
Kv8a TIL that Philip J Fry from Futurama is named after Matt Groening’s father “Homer Philip Groening”, not after Phil Hartman.
9mk7 TIL the charity project prevention pays addicts $300 to go on long term birth control
8eRYb TIL In 1978, President Carter oversaw the installation of the first computers in the White House: a Hewlett-Packard HP 3000, water-cooled IBM laser printer, and Xerox Alto desktop computer for the Oval Office. Reagan later removed the Xerox Alto in 1981
PnvE TIL the inventor of the electronic television, Philo Farnsworth, only appeared on tv twice in his life. One time he was on a gameshow and won $80 and a carton of Camel cigarettes.