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TIL that nearly 25% of the world's population is Muslim

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a8DjA TIL the NBC chimes are a G, and E, and a C: the company would later be bought by the General Electric Company
WZKN TIL i learned firefighters would use dynamite to extinguish fires. Dynamite thrown directly into the flame causes all the oxygen to ignite instantaneously, therefore starving the fire so it goes out.
rRlWx TIL During the Depression, Post Toasties (now Post Consumer Brands) decided to use cartoon animals on its boxes and paid its cartoonist $1.5 million in the first year. That artist was Walt Disney, and he used the earnings to build the Disney empire.
pYJxQ TIL about the "Pig War" of 1859, an almost-war between the U.S. and Britain over U.S.-Canadian boundaries, all started by the shooting of a pig!
GYMpg TIL about the female jockey who pissed off the NAZI Party by beating six acclaimed SS Officers in Czechoslovakia's biggest horse race, shortly before WWII broke out and Germany invaded the country.