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TIL not only has the world population more than doubled in the past 50 years, it was also below 2 billion just 100 years ago.

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oR9Kr TIL about Jimmy Robinson, a US Air Force Piloted that died (marked MIA officially) after damage sustained flying through the mushroom cloud of Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear bomb detonation. The flight was to gather information regarding the composition of the cloud, his body was never found.
Jvkj TIL: In the film “Foxcatcher” Channing Tatum’s mirror-bashing scene wasn’t in the script, Tatum got so into the role he frantically headbutted a real mirror and cut his head.
9Y6lM TIL Actor Joe Pesci got his start as a musician, playing guitar with Joey Dee and the Starliters. When he left the band he was replaced by a then-unknown Jimi Hendrix
GPO5 TIL The concrete used to make the Hoover Dam is still curing to this day
bxG7 TIL that in a span of 40 years Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies cartoons were sold by Warner Bros. to Associated Artists Productions, which was sold to United Artists, which was sold to MGM, which was sold to Turner Broadcasting, which was sold to …Time Warner, bringing the cartoons full circle.