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TIL the world population went from 3 billion to 7 billion in 50 years

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0jNM TIL Thomas Grasso’s last meal before his execution was 24 mussels, 24 clams, a double cheeseburger, 6 ribs, 2 strawberry milkshakes, half a pumpkin pie, strawberries, and a can of SpaghettiOs. His final statement was, “I did not get my SpaghettiOs. I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this.”
4XA96 TIL Brendan Gleeson (the man who played Mad-Eye Moody in Harry Potter movies) is the father of Domhnall Gleeson (the man who played Bill Weasley).
e61J TIL Youtube star Jenna Marbles has made 2.5 million dollars from her channel
9YQWr TIL because of his popularity, when Bruce Lee died, filmmakers in China and Taiwan created an exploitation sub-genre devoted to action films starring Lee lookalikes called Bruceploitation.
P1Zae TIL that more than half of the costs for a major sewage treatment plant in the Kaliningrad oblast was financed from international sources because they would otherwise dump all their sewage into the Baltic Sea, thus polluting it for all its European neighbors