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TIL that India now has the world's largest population.

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6LQZ TIL that in 1971, when Frank Sinatra couldn’t get a ringside ticket to Ali & Frazier’s “Fight of the Century”, he managed to get a press pass to shoot photos for LIFE magazine instead.
xkPb TIL That Alan Turing (who created a precursor to the modern computer), committed suicide in 1954. Two years prior, he had been “convicted” of homosexuality, in which he was forced to undergo hormonal treatments and lost security clearance to continue his research.
GNgG [TIL] Crimea was one of the first carriers of the black plague back in 1346.
a8MLL TIL that the Hoover dam is still curing and will take 15 - 20 years to finally be complete
L0lV TIL A 19 year old college student died after overdosing on caffeine, this lead the FDA to confirm that caffeine can be lethal.