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TIL only 17% of the global population lives in “fully developed” countries (HDI > 0.8)

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ZpDj4 TIL George Low was a top engineer for the Apollo moon landing team and his son David became a three-time shuttle astronaut
8A1a TIL whilst Harrison Ford was fitting a door for Francis Ford Coppola a studio executive asked the handyman to take a break and read lines with actresses who were testing for a new film. The film was Star Wars.
rRBey TIL that the band Weezer got its name because frontman Rivers Cuomo had the nickname due to his asthma, and the band thought it would make a great name when they formed in 1992.
wAWo TIL Mr Bean’s humour truly crosses language and cultural barriers; a friend of Rowan Atkinson’s was in a poor African village during the 90s when she heard loud laughter coming from a shack. She went in & discovered most of the village gathered around a fuzzy black & white TV watching Mr Bean.
eDM4 TIL the term “jaywalking” was coined by the auto industry in the 1920s in an effort to “redefine streets as places where pedestrians do not belong”