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

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dbVr TIL Matt Groening and Seth MacFarlane have never felt animosity towards each. They relate to each other, and their so-called feud is media-created
Okra TIL Adolf Hitler’s initial reaction to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, when he was first informed about it on the evening of 7 December at Führer Headquarters, was that he claimed “We can’t lose the war at all. We now have an ally which has never been conquered in 3,000 years”.
a87aJ TIL the female equivalent of 'phallic' is 'yonnic'
8ae58 TIL the word "dashboard" originated as a barrier of wood or leather fixed at the front of a horse-drawn carriage or sleigh to protect the driver from mud or other debris "dashed up" (thrown up) by the horses' hooves.
b6MZZ TIL that the Mobro 4000 was a garbage barge that departed New York with 3,000 tons of trash in 1987. It gained national headlines as it traveled the coast looking for a place to unload after being rejected by six states and three countries. It finally unloaded five months later… in Brooklyn.