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TIL Humans killed at least 203 million humans in the 20th century.

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pYlMO TIL Christopher Lee has played the role of Count Dracula a total of 10 times, for 4 different studios. This includes Dracula and Son, a parody of his other Dracula movies. For most of the original Hammer films he was basically blackmailed into playing the role
Z4PQ TIL that just 5 years after its invention, the smallpox vaccine was sent throughout the world by the King of Spain, stored in 22 orphans. The developer himself, Edward Jenner wrote, “I don’t imagine the annals of history furnish an example of philanthropy so noble, so extensive as this.”
l7JxN TIL about the 'battle of the farts' in 19th C Japan. '' In the battle of wind, the participants tried to knock others off their feet and caused the people to cover their nasal passages as a reaction of utter repulsion. It was indeed a battle of powerful, dangerous, and extremely noxious farts.''
M7jda TIL one of the least populated counties in the U.S. is Hooker County, Nebraska. It’s named in honor of Union General Joseph Hooker. The county has just 711 people spread across 721 square miles—that’s almost exactly one person per square mile.
oBpEK TIL the word 'propaganda' derives from a committee of Catholic cardinals set up in 1622 by Pope Gregory XV, the Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide (the Sacred College for Propagating the Faith), called Propaganda for short. It's aim was to spread the Catholic faith in non-Catholic countries.