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

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x4P7 TIL Raccoons are smarter than cats and dogs, and have approximately the same mental attributes as monkeys.
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mxlJM TIL US incarceration rates exceeds the average incarceration levels in the Soviet Union during the existence of the infamous Stalin’s Gulag system
5Ve7Q TIL the piano failed to catch on when it was first invented in 1700. It was only after Johann Zumpe made improvements and J.S. Bach socially promoted the piano in 1768 that it eventually displaced the harpsichord as the preferred keyboard instrument.