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

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6dWQ TIL An Asian high school girl was kicked out of the house because she didn’t do as well as her twin. She did better at murdering her and impersonating her though.
xw0 TIL that the cat Corleone was petting in the opening scene of “The Godfather” was a stray that wandered onto the set. Brando picking it up and petting it was not in the script
wodO8 TIL Chuck Feeney, the billionaire who co-founded the airport retailer Duty Free Shoppers Group. He secretly gave away nearly his entire net worth of $8 billion dollars to charity before passing away in October 9th of this year.
VAwk TIL That Min Chiu Li, the first man to chemotherapeutically cure adult cancer patients, was fired by the NCI for his achievement.
gNE4 TIL that despite both being great composers, and living 80 miles apart (and never meeting each other) both Bach and Handel were blinded by the same Doctor.