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

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OorZ7 TIL that Kazakhstan was the entire Soviet Union for 4 days
p4vb TIL the 1919 Stanley Cup Finals is the only time no winner was declared due to an outbreak of influenza which hospitalized most of the Montreal Canadiens and their general manager.
gM0PA TIL Harry R. Truman refused to leave his lodge at the base of Mount St. Helens in Washington state despite evacuation orders due to its seismic activity, saying to reporters "If the mountain goes, I'm going with it." He was killed by the pyroclastic flow from the eruption on May 18th, 1980.
5YErB TIL For the film Stargate, Kurt Russell was paid twice his going rate because he was the only actor at the time to have "zero unlikability" in a global poll.
grXnW TIL that journal Nature once published a review of conspiracy theory that the resurrection of Jesus was staged by Pontius Pilate