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TIL Java is the most populated island in the world with over 140 million people. The population of Java accounts for ~57% of the population of Indonesia, which is the 4th most populous country in the world.

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GY4wg TIL The tallest woman in recorded history is alleged to be the Dutch Trijntje Cornelisdochter Keever: standing at 2.54 metres (8 ft 4 in) tall at the time of her death at age seventeen.
j64YM TIL that ITER is the nuclear fusion research project aimed to create energy through a fusion process similar to that of the Sun. Creating an artificial Sun, hoping to generate electricity has already been described as the most expensive science experiment of all time.
60w8 TIL Robert Maxwell, a noncombatant in WWII, was awarded the Medal of Honor for holding off a platoon armed with automatic weapons with 3 other soldiers using just .45 pistols and throwing himself on a grenade, absorbing the full blast. He is one of 7 surviving medalists, age 94.
jNNjp TIL baby salmon were evacuated from a hatchery by tanker trucks in anticipation of the collapse of the Oroville Dam.
ybGM TIL a Tennessee Church kicked out a woman who had been a member for 60 years for refusing to publicly condemn her lesbian daughter