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TIL It took 200,000 years for our human population to reach 1 billion—and only 200 years to reach 7 billion

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16JM8 TIL about Otesánek, a 19th century Czech fairy tale in which a childless couple finds a tree stump that resembles a baby. The baby comes to life, but has an insatiable and destructive appetite.
boG4 TIL in 1959, a white author underwent skin treatments to appear African-American, hitchhiked around the Pre-Civil Rights South to experience hatred and racism firsthand, then wrote a bestselling book about it.
R7y18 TIL between 6,000 & 9,000 years ago, the people of the Levant decorated the skulls of their dead with plaster, gave them shells for eyes, and painted intricate details of hair and moustaches on them. It's not known why.
L09m TIL The origin of the word “Butterfly” may have come from its yellow excrement and the middle Dutch word boterschijte. The literal meaning is “butter-shitter”.
lrKa TIL before blood glucose tests were available, doctors would taste the urine of their patients to diagnose Diabetes. A sweet taste meant the patient was diabetic.