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

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neWLW TIL the city of Melbourne gave email addresses to trees so locals could report problems, but they received thousands of love letters instead
DQXwY TIL the town of Codell, Kansas was hit by tornadoes on the same day, May 20, for 3 consecutive years
Y4RA TIL Night of the Living Dead is in the public domain due to a failure to register its copyright
41Ng TIL the VW Beetle has changed so little that you can mount the body of a 1936 Beetle on a 2003 chassis, and visa-versa
8a7lG TIL the English poet Lord Byron was notorious for his robust sex life. He had raging cases of gonorrhea and syphilis by age 21, was rumored to have had a lengthy affair with his half-sister Augusta, and slept with at least 200 women (and a few men) during a three year period in Venice.