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TIL India has more people using the Internet than the entire population of the United States

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N7Av1 TIL - Humans and big ag livestock now account for 96% of mammal biomass
L7xr TIL of Leslie Coffelt, who was killed defending Harry Truman from an assassination attempt. Shot by an assassin 4 times, Coffelt propped himself up against a guard booth and fired one shot, hitting the assassin in the head and killing him. Coffelt collapsed immediately and died four hours later.
yPNV TIL that gargoyles are used as waterspouts and grotesques are decorative.
ZEGa TIL: That after the Kent state shootings that 58% of respondents blamed the students while 11% blamed the National Guardsmen.
1AKO TIL UC Berkeley is developing a free timeline of the history of everything– Starting from the Big Bang 13.8 Billion years ago to the present.