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TIL that 80% of the lyrics for Nirvana’s debut album were written the night before recording

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Oo1Xa TIL that George B. McClellan, the mayor of New York in 1904, was to symbolically start the first train at City Hall station and the hand it over to an engineer. However, he enjoyed himself so much that he refused to stop controlling the train until he reached 103rd street.
ODRa TIL English is the only language that has more non-native speakers than native speakers.
Zvbo TIL When the movie Clue was shown in theaters, different theaters were given 1 of 3 endings.
REYa TIL that the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by air included a cat.
4XGPw TIL during WWII, 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion). More than half of the total number of casualties are accounted for by the dead of the Republic of China and of the Soviet Union. About 8.23% of Germany's population perished.