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TIL that 1 in 8 people who have ever lived are alive today

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yQKGw TIL of Jeanne de Clisson. After her husband was beheaded by the french, she sold all of her land and holdings to fund a pirate army. She hunted and destroyed all the French ships that they could. When she caught nobles, she personally beheaded them with an axe.
VaOp TIL that for 10 years after WWII, there was a fourth network on American broadcast television called The DuMont Television Network. The network folded in 1956, and today it has been all but forgotten because most of its archives were destroyed.
VlV0 TIL That 45% of all online gamers are female and woman over the age of 18 are the industry’s fastest growing demographic
wL9ME TIL that Viganella, a city in Italy where the sun doesn't rise for three months a year, has a mirror located on a mountain to reflect the sunlight
d8R9E TIL the ‘Swiss Army Man’ directors had a dummy made up of Daniel Radcliffe, assuming he didn’t want to do the weird, nude, farting stunts and lay around in dirt. But he loved it so much, he insisted on doing every scene.