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TIL The name for the largest known protein has 189,819 letters and takes more than three hours to pronounce.

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b9v07 TIL between 1972 and 2018 the world population has doubled to nearly 8 billion, there were only 2.6 billion people in the world in 1951.
gr6M4 TIL Mao Zedong is is generally credited with eradicating both consumption and production of opium in China during the 1950s. Under his government, 10 million addicts were forced into compulsory treatment, dealers were executed, and opium-producing regions were planted with new crops.
ORke TIL On June 28, 2009, Stephen Hawking held a party open to all, complete with hors d'oeuvres and iced champagne, but only publicized the party after it was over so that only time-travellers would know to attend; as expected, nobody showed up to the party.
5YbdP TIL horses can't vomit because they have a strong lower esophageal sphincter that acts as a one-way valve, preventing food from coming up.
VMXAm TIL there is a crocodile named "Gustave" who allegedly killed as many as 300 people