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TIL that 2023 is the first full year that Earth hosted 8 billion people.

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XalP TIL of Jack Ketch, an English executioner in the 1600s whose name became synomoymous with Satan, death and excecutioner because of the brutal inefficiency of his excecutions
wNP TIL that on July 4th, 1940 there were only 14 democracies remaining in the world. All other countries were dictatorships.
j6BPM TIL that in the early 2000s, anime dubbing studio Funimation signed a deal with Canadian studio Nelvana to distribute Canadian cartoons to expand into non-anime programming.
nWrrB TIL that in 1903 President Teddy Roosevelt spent three nights camping with John Muir in Yosemite. For many this is considered the most significant event in the history of conservation.
oJZo TIL that it is illegal to bring potatoes into Norway except if you have special permission.