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TIL Kim Jong-Il called his hairstyle the “speed battle cut”

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Z8GmB TIL that with 168,151 people per square km, the Lalbagh Thana neighborhood of Dhaka, Bangladesh, is most densely populated administrative subdivision in the world (~6.2x denser than Manhattan!)
eg8J TIL that Jamie and Adam (from Mythbusters) worked as visual technicians on the film Flubber (1996). Oh and Bill Nye was a science consultant, as well.
Y7j7x TIL 55% of the world's population aged 15 and older can't swim
0wBAv TIL that the act of throwing someone through a window is known as "defenestration", coined after an argument in Prague Castle about religion in 1618 led to three people being thrown out a third-storey window.
Xa4j TIL Robin Williams performed stand-up comedy at a Seattle nightclub in 2004, 2007, and 2008 to donate all of the proceeds, totaling nearly $50K, to a local food bank without telling anyone.