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TIL that Ireland’s population still hasn’t recovered from the Great Famine. There are 3.6 million less people living there today than there were before the famine in 1841.

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loWk7 TIL Bernard Fisher established definitively that early-stage breast cancer is more effectively treated by lumpectomy, in combination with radiation therapy, chemotherapy, and/or hormonal therapy, than by radical mastectomy which had been standard for over 75 years.
p84b TIL red sapphires are so rare, they’re given another name: rubies
6EVQ TIL There is a giant hexagon shaped storm at Saturns north pole.
e0Nxb TIL that pregnancy is counted from the first day of the last period. So if you were to conceive in the week before your period, you’d already be approx. 3 weeks pregnant (assuming a 4 week menstrual cycle)!
WkwLB TIL of Ranavalona, a ruthless ruler of Madagascar. During her reign the population of Madagascar is estimated to have declined from around 5 million to 2.5 million