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

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6EWXJ TIL That the word "Jiffy" (as in, "i'll be back in a jiffy" or "Jiffy Lube") refers to an actual Unit of time, 'The Jiffy', which is defined as "the amount of time light takes to travel one fermi (about the size of a nucleon) in a vacuum".
Bg1rd TIL that in 1931 Albert Einstein sent a letter to Sigmund Freud titled "Why War?" to better understand the psychological causes of war. Freud responded that biological evolution, inherent power differences within groups, and the paradox of peace (times of peace allow empires to be built) cause war.
aanL TIL: When you speak inside your mind small muscles in your throat mimic the formation of each word, and NASA is working on a machine that would detect these muscle movements and transcribe them to words.
gMXO4 TIL in the 1900s, over 60,000 US citizens were forcefully sterilized under the reasoning that they were disabled or mentally unfit to birth America’s future generations.
KPW6 TIL Bart Sibrel lured Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, to a hotel to interview him for a documentary. Sibrel, poking Aldrin with a bible, called him a “thief, liar and coward”, demanding he swear the moon landing wasn’t staged. Instead, Aldrin punched Sibrel, and was not prosecuted.