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TIL the least densely populated countries (with at least 8 million citizens) are Australia and Canada.

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wVjo TIL: While building a new highway in Houston this year, engineers found an ancient Indian burial ground. Archaeologists now say there are 10 sets of human remains as old as 14,000 years.
dDaNQ TIL Olfactory Aversion Conditioning was shown in a study to temporarily reduce overeating in a test group, but the weight-loss results didn't last once the study ended and the aversive stimuli were taken away
GYoYN TIL horror director Ari Aster ("Hereditary," "Midsommar") made his student thesis film about a boy who molests his own father. Aster desired to create a story about the "worst thing" he could get away with filming at school, a taboo "so unfathomable" that it wasn't technically a taboo to begin with.
P1EdG TIL that stargardt disease makes the center of your vision blind, making you only being able to see the sides
B8lb TIL Braille was originally created as a way for Napoleon’s spies to read documents without needing any light. It was Louis Braille that pointed out the flaws of the code which created the version we use today.