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TIL St. Louis, Missouri has fewer current residents than it did in 1870.

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jNbyE TIL the American distributor of the 1976 Korean movie 아메리카 방문객 ("Visitor of America") added a plot-unrelated scene of Bruce Lee rising from his grave and named the English-language release "Bruce Lee Fights Back from the Grave".
yVPB8 TIL about the Allied Trachenberg Plan which helped defeat Napoleon. This involved avoiding direct confrontations with him, but to instead go after his commanders bit by bit. This would buy the Allies time to gather an army and eventually overwhelm Napoleon.
5Veb8 TIL Only 11% of students from low income families earn a bachelors degree by 24
P1LNg TIL that people who attempted suicide are statistically likely to have chronic inflammation (a faulty immune system response where you basically get sick for no reason all the time).
BZ5D TIL Demetri Martin would play guitar and have music playing in the background of his comedy specials so Comedy Central couldn’t edit his set.