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TIL Each day about 14,247 die from cancer

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ag0J TIL the only reason Tom Cruise was literally in a closet in South Park, was Trey Parker getting around the legal repercussions of calling him gay directly. The Lawyers wouldn’t allow it, so he rewrote the scene to have him trapped in a closet.
DExv TIL: Five of the world’s ten richest people belong to two families (Koch and Walton)
16MDW TIL Heinrich Himmler's daughter, Gudrun Burwitz, never renounced Nazi ideology, spending most of her life defending her father's reputation. She died in 2018.
kJLZ4 TIL in 1900 38% of cars on in North America were electric (steam was the most common and gasoline cars were a distant third)
8aAKX TIL that Princess Diana's funeral was watched by approximately 2.5 billion people, which, in 1997, was about 43% of the entire population of Earth.