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

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GYJkN TIL Eric Carmen stole the music from Rachmaninoff for his hit "All By Myself" and the Rachmaninoff estate made him pay for it.
lMpr TIL The blinking light atop the Capitol Records Tower spells out the word “Hollywood” in Morse code, and has done so since the building’s opening in 1956.
pV5e TIL that if a billiard ball and the earth were the same size, earth would be smoother than the ball
QmpM TIL that in 1974 a man died from an overdose of carrot juice.
e7Rn TIL that Martin Luther King Jr’s grandmother died of a fatal heart attack that she suffered while MLK was supposed to be looking after her, but was instead watching a local parade. Feeling guilt that it was his fault, he attempted suicide by jumping out a second story window.