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TIL only 12% of the World’s population lives below the equator

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0wdp5 TIL that Bumblebees were originally called Humblebees until about the mid 20th Century.
j6LrM TIL a study titled "Where Are They Now?" in 1978 followed up on 515 people who were prevented from attempting suicide using the Golden Gate Bridge from 1937 to 1971. About 90% were either alive or had died of natural causes, concluding "suicidal behavior is crisis-oriented" rather than inexorable.
KOwAR TIL that a toilet break once sank a submarine. When the captain of U-1206 was unable to operate the toilet, he called in an engineer, who flipped the wrong switch, causing water to flood in and filled the ship with chlorine gas. The ship surfaced, was spotted, and was attacked and scuttled.
7r9r TIL that the Playboy rabbit head is hidden on almost every cover since the 1960’s
VMAM4 TIL that King Henry loved adding guns to other weapons. His bodyguards carried shields with pistols built into them, and Henry himself had a walking stick that doubled as both a spiked mace and a three-barreled pistol.