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

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xVpY1 TIL in a previous life the Buddha saw a tigress starving and about to eat her cubs. To save the cubs he lept from a cliff to allow the tigress to eat him.
bRb7 TIL of Witold Pilecki, a Polish officer during WWII who volunteered to go to Auschwitz to document the genocide and fought in the Warsaw Uprising only to be executed by the Soviets
b6mp4 TIL legendary sing-songwriter and inventor of the Jello Shot, Tom Lehrer, transferred all his music into the public domain and all of his recorded songs can be downloaded for free.
WAv4 TIL the world’s oldest logo belongs to Stella Artois beer, which despite numerous changes in management since its creation, the original horn logo hasn’t changed in 650 years.
VMm6m TIL the QWERTY keyboard layout was created in the early 1870s for typewriters. It was purposely designed to slow the user down so the typewriter keys wouldn't jam. 150 years later, we are still using the same keyboard design even though we don't have to worry about keys jamming.