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TIL PSY Rapped About Murdering Americans Before Becoming An International Sensation

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VP04 TIL Between 1992 and 2013, the Amish population increased by 120%, while the US population increased by 23%.
E1Zb0 TIL that Steve Jobs used a loophole in the UNOS registration system to get his liver transplant before others.
6E9ll if the Sun were 'shut off', Earth's surface temperature would drop by a factor of two about every two months. The current mean temperature of the Earth's surface is about 27 °C / 81 °F. This means in two months the temperature would drop to -123 °C / -190 °F, and -189 °C / -324 °F in four months. So basically except some bacteria seem to be capable of surviving at extremely cold temperatures in space, we humans would die pretty quickly.
neEJW TIL during the Battle of Lexington in the American Revolution there was a tense 10 minute standoff between the British and the Americans. A local mentally ill man took this time to wander between both sides trying to sell hard cider
e0DN5 TIL Halle Berry's stunt double in Catwoman was a man. Hawaiian-born Nito Larioza was the same height/skin color and wore Red Lipstick and a cat suit for the filming