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TIL 93% of all humans who have ever existed are dead

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Oopag TIL that Van Halen's "no brown M&Ms" clause was a way to make sure show promoters read the whole contract
xWJ1 TIL in 2001 BMW released a series of short films called “The Hire” that featured famous filmmakers, starred Clive Owen as the “Driver”, and highlighted the performance aspects of BMW cars. It was a huge success and helped increase car sales 12% over the previous year.
epadk TIL that Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal, the life story of a 12th century knight named William Marshal, is the only known written biography of a nonroyal to survive the Middle Ages.
nWGpb TIL that when F1 driver Pedro Rodriguez won the 1967 South African Grand Prix, becoming the first ever Mexican driver to win an F1 race, the organizers didn't have the Mexican anthem, and instead played the Mexican hat dance. After that, Rodriguez always traveled with a record of the anthem with him
4XZaw TIL although regular concrete needs steel formwork, 3D printed concrete has different methods of achieving structural integrity